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One who practices alchemy.
- [K]nowledge of philtres, aphrodisiacs, and other sexual stimulants spread from the Arabs and the Moors, from Egypt and India into the European herbals, pharmacopeias, and apothecaries’ lore, and, on a more indeterminate level, among alchemi
- Years later, scientists learned that the sun’s light—visible and invisible—is merely the by-product of a process alchemists had vainly tried to reproduce for centuries—the transmutation of one element into another. That nature accomplishes
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One who blends material or substances in the nature or supposed nature of alchemy.
syn. alchemist · fire philosopher · philosopher by fire · philosopher of fire