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Alchemist were not really chemists but people who "randomly" mixed substances in the vein hope of turning them into the most perfect substance; gold or silver. ( Hence why gold was represented by a perfect circle, and silver by a crescent, as silver wasn't as "perfect" as gold.)

But they laid the the foundations of what we now call modern chemistry. But in terms of who actually changed the name its no so clear. But one of the the first people to use methods that vaguely resembled modern chemistry where the Muslim alchemists.

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