Alchemy Alchemist Research Paper

Have you ever thought about taking something and turning it into something completely different object? Have you ever wished for immortality or eternal youth. Alchemy, Alchemy is the art of deconstruction analyzing the matter and reconstructing the matter into a completely different material. There are several topics of alchemy that have been proven and there are several topic that cannot be explained but here are some topic of both areas undiscovered and explained. History of Alchemy, Examples of what Alchemy is and The Alchemist Ultimate goals like the Elixir of life that will grant you eternal youth, Philosophers stone that cancels out the rule of equivalent exchange and Immortality what all alchemist meant to achieve and what i'm going to talk about

How was alchemy was discovered. In Egypt Alchemy first was noticed, Egyptians mummified people that were dead but Mummifying people was a form of alchemy because egyptians had to
Even though most of alchemist biggest goals are still a mystery we know that alchemist were obsessed with tuning lead into gold. Alchemist were obsessed in getting rich so there were tons of alchemist trying to turn lead into gold and it has been achieved “Transmutation Circles, Transmutation of lead into gold isn't just theoretically possible - it has been achieved! There are reports that Glenn Seaborg, 1951 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, succeeded in transmuting a minute quantity of lead (possibly en route from bismuth, in 1980) into gold.”( L Gerber). Why were alchemist so obsessed with turning lead into gold “The alchemists did not regard all metals as equally mature or 'perfect.' Gold symbolized the highest development in nature and came to personify human renewal and regeneration. A 'golden' human being was resplendent with spiritual beauty and had triumphed over the lurking power of evil.” (Radford 5). So Alchemist where obsessed with gold because back in the day gold was thought to be the “perfect”