0 a type of chemistry, especially in the Middle Ages, that dealt with trying to find a way to change ordinary metals into gold and with trying to find a medicine that would cure any disease -- 煉金術，煉丹術
She manages, by some extraordinary alchemy, to turn the most ordinary of ingredients into the most delicious of dishes. 她像用了魔法似的，竟然能用極普通的配料做出非常可口的菜餚。
To some extent they have been perhaps sophisticated, or naive, victims of these new-fangled alchemies.
The ' emergence' of the factors of interest should surely be shown as a rational and replicable process, not presented as alchemy that defies explanation.
On the contrary : the putrefaction of deeds asserted over grace its own remorseless alchemy.
He focused on reviving traditional philosophies and sciences such as cosmology, numerology, and alchemy, which had been neglected or lost in modern times.
Teleological theories like alchemy, magic, and astrology simply have not stood the empirical test as well as mechanical theories have.
The second book covered alchemy's and chemistry's relation to other fields of science, especially botany, suggesting the use of the doctrine of signatures to determine the medical property of plants.
They implicate magic, alchemy and various forms of nonscientific knowledge in the production of sources of eternal youth, and identify a public susceptibility to such elixirs.
Nuclear reprogramming - alchemy or analysis?
