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Alchemy is an ancient term which included all manner of things we would consider strange today. However the most important sciences to develop from alchemy was chemistry. So if you are doing chemistry you are doing alchemy.
Alchemy was abandoned because it didn't work. Some of the things that did work became chemistry. No one successfully turned lead into gold. Nor did anyone successfully create the philosopher's stone. Alchemy was basically chemistry with a lot of magic thrown into it. The alchemists were sorcerer want to be's. They attempted to conjure spirits, and use spells on chemicals that they believed contained magical properties, all in a vain attempt to convert base metals into something of greater value. Even Isaac newton, probably the greatest scientific mind of the last 500 years, accomplished nothing in alchemy, even though he experimented with it for decades.
It is quiet a task! In fact impossible.

Alchemy is the study and philosophy of changing other metals into gold. Realistically this is impossible, however theoretically could be possible. Remember any atom is made of sub atomic particles and they each have a number assigned to them on the Periodic Table to count the number of protons in that given element. Gold is number 79 and has a weight of 197 amu making it have 118 neutrons. In order for another metal element to form gold it would have to gain all of those in the exact same way gold has them configured. This task is currently impossible.

Thus, you cannot perform alchemy.

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