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Jay Vee
Jay Vee asked in Society & CultureOther - Society & Culture · 2 decades ago

When someone says "Alchemy", what comes to mind?

I, being an amature alchemist myself, have been disgusted by some things I am reading you people ask about alchemy. What brings me even more grief, though, is people's view of what alchemy is. Just for future refrence, I'll ask you all a question: What do you think alchemy is? I have an answer, having experience with alchemy myself, but i want to know what you think. So leave me a detailed description of what you believe alchemy to be, what your view on alchemy is, or any questions that you have about alchemy.

Update:

So far no one's remotly close

Update 2:

You know what? No one's even close, so I've decided to let the public choose the answer then find fit. After all, that's the whole reason I started this question, to find out what you all think.

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  • catch-ee
    2 decades ago
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    chemistry, and thats all.

  • shadow_watt
    2 decades ago

    The first thing that comes to mind is a game :). But what I think to be alchemy is the study of healing metal. For example how magnets work to heal a body now. That is a form of alchemy. But i Think what most people think it is, is finding a way to make gold out of metal. Gotta love those sci-fi movies LOL.

    Source(s): Self taught
  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    I believe that alchemy is the experimentation with metals and elixers. I don't know much about alchemy, but I've heard about it, and that's what comes to mind.

  • Sidereality
    2 decades ago

    Off the top of my head I think it has to do with witchcraft, maybe using herbs or elements or natural oils or whatever to do spells and rituals. I could be wrong though.

    Ok I just looked it up on wikipedia, and it really sounds fascinating actually! Maybe someday I will look into it.

    So what is it in your own words?

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  • De la serna
    7 years ago

    I think about full metal alchemist/brotherhood and how cool a philosophers stone would be, for the immortality not the gold.

  • Hibernating Ladybird
    Lv 4
    2 decades ago

    ALCHEMY - chemistry used for telling the future

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    It's a puzzle game on Yahoo Games!!

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