Is lead really transmutable into gold?. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
In the same way Hate and Love are mutually transmutable; so are Fear and Courage. From Wordnik.com. [The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece] Reference
The process of oxidizing brings alive this material, which behaves like fire, dynamic, transmutable and unpredictable. From Wordnik.com. [Really Creative Fireplaces Designs by Anne Colombo] Reference
Empedoclean elements (earth, air, water, and fire) with their attendant qualities and he believed that they were mutually transmutable. From Wordnik.com. [ALCHEMY] Reference
"By those who have neither feeling nor imagination enough to care for anything not transmutable into dollars, perhaps it has," I rejoined, somewhat tartly. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863] Reference
It may be so; but this would only prove that the "unsuspected species" included greater varieties, not that a really defined species was transmutable into another. From Wordnik.com. [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference
Aristotle accepted the four Empedoclean elements (earth, air, water, and fire) with their attendant qualities and he believed that they were mutually transmutable. From Wordnik.com. [Alchemy] Reference
Speculum, the Eyes of Narcißus behold Metals transmutable, and from which Rayes the Adept gather their fire, by the help of which, Volatile Metals are fixed into most fixed Gold, or Silver. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires] Reference
They are not transmutable into so much material energy. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
Spirits are the only solids, matter being endlessly penetrable and transmutable. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
Therefore the great emotions that go with them are not immediately transmutable into beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory] Reference
Both are "physical" energies, subject to the law of conservation, and as such transmutable one into the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal] Reference
This resemblance has attracted the notice of the natives, who firmly believe that one is transmutable into the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
Made in the Dark is a synthed-out workout plan full of hypnotic dance grooves featuring Alexis Taylor's transmutable vocals. From Wordnik.com. [Creative Loafing Atlanta Feed] Reference
A grasp of this aesthetic helps make these PRC films transmutable into art -- the right set of eyes adjusting to the terrible quality of the prints. From Wordnik.com. [Bright Lights After Dark] Reference
The result of his own experience, as well as the experience of other observers, was, as he expresses it, his solemn conviction that species are fixed and not transmutable. From Wordnik.com. [What is Darwinism?] Reference
Some few materialists have therefore sought to meet the difficulty in the only way it can be met, viz. by boldly asserting the possibility of thought and energy being transmutable. From Wordnik.com. [Mind and Motion and Monism] Reference
Light, heat, chemical affinity, etc., are supposed to be mutually convertible and transmutable; and, according to the present hypothesis, Will must also be included in this series!. From Wordnik.com. [The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal] Reference
And if it is just to reply that calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg, is it not equally just to reply that calling two transmutable elements one element does not make them so?. From Wordnik.com. [Alchemy: Ancient and Modern] Reference
Biological Exuberance is ... a worldview that is at once primordial and futuristic, in which gender is kaleidoscopic, sexualities are multiple, and the categories of male and female are fluid and transmutable. From Wordnik.com. [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference
All this being true, it would seem as if the position of the Daltonian atom as a primordial bit of matter, indestructible and non-transmutable, had been put to the test by the chemistry of our century, and not found wanting. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences] Reference
Relativity of simultaneity: two events that appear simultaneous to an observer A will not be simultaneous to an observer B if B is moving with respect to A. Mass-energy equivalence: E = mc2, energy and mass are equivalent and transmutable. From Wordnik.com. [LDS Doctrine] Reference
Following Newton, he spoke of light as a "corpuscular emanation" or fluid, composed of shining particles which possibly are transmutable into particles of heat, and which enter into chemical combination with the particles of other forms of matter. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences] Reference
In his laboratory he had specimens of iron ore that contained copper, and also samples of copper ore that contained gold, and from this he argued that these metals were transmutable, and really in the act of transmutation when the process was interfered with by the miner's pick. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists] Reference
The supposition is, that there are motions which manifest themselves to our senses only as heat, electricity, etc., being molecular motions; oscillations, invisible to us, among the minute particles of bodies; and that these molecular motions are transmutable into molar motions (motions of masses), and molar motions into molecular. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
"Is it philosophical to point to the fact that two such transmutable elements yield but a single line of derivatives as proof that they are one element?. From Wordnik.com. [Alchemy: Ancient and Modern] Reference
Money is not transmutable into objects and power. From Wordnik.com. [New Illustration of the Folly of the Minimum Wage, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
| heir principles are transmutable, so that out of one pf them, others may be produced, 1682. 28. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth ...] Reference
Dean's fidelity to 16-mm film and its bulky, outmoded apparatus, as digital technology quickly renders them obsolete, defines her art and her outlook; the materiality of the medium seems a bulwark against a fast-advancing future where imagery is insubstantial, endlessly transmutable, there but not there, "writes. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
For worldly rychesse is often transmutable. From Wordnik.com. [The Conuercyon of swerers (The Conversion of Swearers)] Reference
"Species not transmutable," Bree's book on. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
The brytyll worlde ryght often transmutable. From Wordnik.com. [The Conuercyon of swerers (The Conversion of Swearers)] Reference
Morland were equally transmutable into gold. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
Credulity, easily transmutable into superstition. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations from the PG Collected Works of Gilbert Parker] Reference
"Precious things lost are transmutable. From Wordnik.com. [news.newamericamedia.org] Reference
Thus everything needed for Christmas was there in sight: the mistletoe -- the holly -- the liquor of the land for the cups of hearty men -- the hams and the sausages of fastidious housewives -- the turkey and the quail -- and crops transmutable into coin. From Wordnik.com. [Bride of the Mistletoe] Reference
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