transmutation

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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

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

And when we’re working together, that’s where the magic and the transmutation can happen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2022

He believed he had seen transmutation performed; he evidently thought it likely that the anonymous stranger who had performed it, in his presence and with his assistance, was an angel, no less.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton