Ancient Practice: Trying to Turn Objects Into Gold
This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from Physics, Group 1897, Puzzle 5 (Harmonic Oscillator).
Question is: Ancient Practice: Trying to Turn Objects Into Gold
and the answer is: ALCHEMY
Word Meaning:
ALCHEMY — (uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
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