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A self-proclaimed alchemist, Williams specializes in transforming wet soil into hardened sculptures that typically live outdoors, where the wind carries seedlings that may attach to the artist’s creations and bloom.

Financially speaking, the wellness industry has finally succeeded where centuries of alchemists failed: turning magnesium into gold.

Transforming base materials into gold was one of the elusive goals of the alchemists of yore.

Whoever can turn it invisible by bending light around it will change warfare just as dramatically as the Chinese alchemist 900 years ago who was looking for the elixir of life and discovered gunpowder.

England have been nimble too, often showing signs of being skilled alchemists.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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