transmutation

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Every day, I became less convinced by complete purification as a means of enlightenment, and more interested in curation, transmutation and integration.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

It's difficult for researchers to make these kinds of observations; in fact, they are not able to directly observe acts of transmutation.

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2024

Some even predicted that controlled transmutation might produce gold as an accidental by-product, which could make people rich while solving all our energy woes.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

The sculpture relates to “yearning for freedom and transmutation in constricting situations,” Monteiro says.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023

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