philosophers' stone
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You can hear traces of Darkside in the other’s respective solo projects, but their fusion operates like a philosophers’ stone.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2021
Each is embellished with vibrant figures and verses, which set out the process for making the philosophers’ stone and the elixir of life.
From Nature • Apr. 28, 2020
The job-hopping Nicolas in The House of the Spirits doubles for One Hundred Years' mad inventor, Jose Arcadio Buendia, who strives to manufacture the philosophers' stone and photograph God.
From Time Magazine Archive
For more than a century, electrical engineers have sought a kind of philosophers' stone: a cell that will turn chemical fuel directly into electricity.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a little late to search for the philosophers’ stone in 1669, yet it was in such a search that phosphorus was discovered.
From History of Phosphorus by Farber, Eduard
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