Definitions

1. The alchemists are known as the first chemists.
2. The Alchemists is a collection of 27 tracks on 2 CDs.
3. Most alchemists were well-meaning and intelligent men and distinguished scientists, such as Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle.
4. State Alchemists are selected by a series of examinations, and are regarded as some of the most powerful and talented alchemists.
5. State Alchemists are not always named for what they are, but usually for outstanding achievements in alchemy and any special alchemical traits.

Collection

1. Often alchemy is seen as an example of medieval gullibility and the alchemists as a collection of eccentrics and superstitious fools. (Web site)

Greatest

1. But from about 1650 to 1750, alchemists had what was arguably their greatest -- and most honest -- century. (Web site)

Quest

1. You follow their journey of being alchemists and their quest to regain that which they have lost. (Web site)
2. He is on a quest to assassinate all the State Alchemists. (Web site)

Edward

1. Once, Edward and Alphonse Elric were willing to do anything to become alchemists.

History

1. The Alchemists A history of alchemy and alchemists.

Historian

1. Among other early alchemists we may mention also Africanus, the Syrian; Synesius, Bishop of Ptolemais, and the historian, Olympiodorus of Thebes.

Silver

1. The alchemists regarded gold as the most perfect metal, silver being considered more perfect than the rest.

Ingredients

1. Alchemists often heated vinegar (an acid) or urine (sometimes a base) as ingredients with earths and metals to cause chemical transmutations.

High Esteem

1. Like most alchemists, he held the supposed virtues of mercury in high esteem.
2. We have already mentioned the high esteem in which the works ascribed to this personage were held by the alchemists (§ 6).

Modern Chemistry

1. Alchemists discovered many chemical processes that led to the development of modern chemistry.

Satirical Attacks

1. Many authors lampooned alchemists and used them as the butt of satirical attacks. (Web site)

Transmutation Attempts

1. Many transmutation attempts failed when alchemists unwittingly made unstable chemicals.

Roy Mustang

1. Roy Mustang, the two alchemists must hunt down the insurrectionists and stop their reign of terror.

Age-Old Dream

1. The artificial production of gold is the age-old dream of the alchemists. (Web site)

Laboratory Tools

1. Alchemists used many of the same laboratory tools that are used today.

Medieval Islamic Alchemists

1. Al-Jaldaki was one of the last and one of the greatest of medieval Islamic alchemists. (Web site)

Elric Brothers

1. Her army was defeated by the Elric Brothers, the State Alchemists and the army in Central. (Web site)

Transmutation

1. The alchemists regarded the metals as composite, and granting this, then the possibility of transmutation is only a logical conclusion.
2. Only through such radioactive decays or nuclear reactions can transmutation, the age-old dream of the alchemists, actually occur. (Web site)

Practicing Alchemists

1. A few practicing alchemists, it seems, may have been certifiably mad - probably, like mad hatters, from sniffing the mercury they worked with.

Ishbal

1. A decade ago State Alchemists were called into Ishbal to end a seven-year civil war.

Alchemists Edward Kelley

1. Alchemists Edward Kelley and John Dee employed a form of scrying using a small crystal ball or shewstone - a piece of polished obsidion. (Web site)

Islamic Alchemists

1. It was not until the still was invented by Islamic alchemists in the 8th or 9th centuries that the history of distilled beverages began.

Paracelsus

1. Paracelsus was the disseminator in Europe of the medieval Islamic alchemists.

Hiessgart

1. The Elric Brothers encountered him when he led the train hijacking taking alchemists to New Hiessgart.
2. Blau is the youngest of the “Alchemy Brothers” and one of the leaders that run a gang of renegade Alchemists in New Hiessgart.

Famous Alchemists

1. Members in the military are tied to WWII and Aircraft names, the Alchemists have ties to famous alchemists in the past.
2. The sulphur-mercury theory of the metals was held by such famous alchemists as Roger Bacon, Arnold de Villanova and Raymond Lully.

Modern Alchemists

1. Some modern alchemists consider the symbols for these planets to represent the radioactive metals Uranium, Neptunium and Plutonium, respectively.

Talented Alchemists

1. Talented alchemists may apply to take a State Alchemist test to join the Amestris military's State Alchemists.

Chinese Alchemy

1. It is now commonly accepted that Chinese alchemy influenced Arabic alchemists (Edwardes pp. (Web site)

Chinese Alchemists

1. Suggests that Chinese alchemists either ignored the danger of elixir poisoning, or tried to neutralize the toxicity of the ingredients.

European Alchemists

1. The philosopher's stone of European alchemists can be compared to the Grand Elixir of Immortality sought by Chinese alchemists. (Web site)
2. Flamel is supposed to have been the most accomplished of the European alchemists. (Web site)
3. An Alchemist's Treasure is a lucid and deeply meaningful presentation of texts by Paracelsus, Joachim Tanckivs, and other Arabian and European alchemists.

Nature

1. But even if the alchemists did not discover the Grand Arcanum of Nature, they did discover very many scientifically important facts.

Roots

1. He is a real homunculus, as his roots are in the age of the alchemists. (Web site)

Interest

1. In the 17th century, interest in magical languages was continued by the Rosicrucians and Alchemists (like John Dee).

Ideas

1. Modern alchemists, he continued, reject the greater part of these ideas, especially those connected with spiritual contact.

Forerunners

1. It is true, that many of the early alchemists were the forerunners of the modern sciences.
2. Whatever their faults, the alchemists were the forerunners of modern experimental science.

Secrets

1. The desire of the old alchemists was to surprise nature`s secrets, and thus attain the ability to do in a short period what nature takes years to accomplish. (Web site)
2. We learn some secrets previously unknown including ties to an ages old group of alchemists. (Web site)

Historians

1. The origin of vodka is shrouded in mystery; the invention is attributed by some historians to the mediaeval alchemists. (Web site)

Art

1. Finally, the alchemists practiced their art: they actively experimented with chemicals and made observations and theories about how the universe operated.
2. But as this exhibit makes clear, alchemists did much to advance the art of glassmaking in the 17th century. (Web site)

Foundation

1. Muslim chemists and alchemists played an important role in the foundation of modern chemistry.
2. This short and cryptic text was highly regarded by European alchemists as the foundation of their art, in particular of its Hermetic tradition. (Web site)

Quite

1. Not quite as Nicolas Flamel did existed and he is regarded as one of the great alchemists of his time. (Web site)

Reason

1. The reason that the Emerald Tablet was so valuable is because it contained the instructions for the goals of alchemists.

Category

1. Category:Swiss alchemists Articles in category "Swiss alchemists" There is 1 article in this category. (Web site)
2. Category:German alchemists Articles in category "German alchemists" There is 1 article in this category.
3. Pages in category "French alchemists" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. (Web site)

Sense

1. The alchemists postulated and believed in a very real sense in the essential unity of the Cosmos.

Astrologers

1. He encouraged philosophers, philologists, traditionalists, and other jurists mathematicians, physicians, astrologers and alchemists.

Work

1. Overshadowing all is the figure of Christian Rosenkreutz and the work of the Rosicrucians, Alchemists and Masons during this period. (Web site)
2. He concluded his argument with an appeal for tolerance towards the medieval alchemists, whose work is underrated because it is not properly understood.

Inventors

1. He, so cold and correct, was almost never to be found save in the company of astrologers, cabbalists, demonologists, alchemists, theologians, or inventors.

Categories

1. Natural Resources > Minerals > Gold > Alchemy
2. Nature > Natural Resources > Minerals > Metals
3. Philosopher's Stone
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5. Natural World

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Edward Elric Isaac Newton

Nicolas Flamel Paracelsus

Roger Bacon Tycho Brahe

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