transmutation
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"We are confident that our measurements accurately reflect the real rate of transmutation of unstable selenium into a more stable form," said Imai.
From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2024
Indeed, when Soddy realized what was going on, he shouted to his colleague: "Rutherford, this is transmutation!"
From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023
To him the sun was less a stable object than a river, in its perpetual transmutation, and he said he never saw the same eclipse twice.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2022
It’s when those words are set to music and dramatized by a singer of skill and sympathy that the magical transmutation occurs.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2022
In 1919, Rutherford had become the first scientist to achieve the medieval fantasy of chemical transmutation: by bombarding nitrogen with radioactivity, he had converted it into oxygen.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing transmutation
Nuclear Processes
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Physics - High School
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"Hamlet's Dull Revenge," Vocabulary from the literary criticism
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