The phrase "a transmutation of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a transformation or change from one state or form to another, often in a metaphorical or scientific context.
Example: "The artist's work represents a transmutation of traditional techniques into modern expressions."
Alternatives: "a transformation of" or "a conversion of".
Rutherford proposed that radioactivity involves a transmutation of one element into another.
The reslting genre is less science fiction (with which Mr. Stephenson is always associated) than a transmutation of fantasy fiction.
Now, in a transmutation of literary wealth into literary battling, his gorgeous conveyance has received a charge of vital energy.
You might call this condition of artistic creation the law of opposites, which can be a displacement of identity, as in the case of the gay composers and actors of yesteryear, or a transmutation of identity.
Nineteenth-century authors from geologist Charles Lyell to naturalist Richard Owen plotted the diversification of fossil organisms through layers of the geological column, but most did not regard it as a transmutation of species.
She held our breath in the palm of her hand, which had become, in a transmutation of artistic genius and love, the hand of Emily Dickinson offering her poetry in the flesh and voice of Miss Harris.
A design concept and the performance characteristics for a fusion transmutation of waste reactor (FTWR)—a sub-critical fast reactor driven by a tokamak fusion neutron source are presented.
His 2011 Paranoid Cat LP (also on Family Vineyard) has been described as "the work of an emergent master" (Uncut) and "a rapturous transmutation of noise into light" (Wire).
A few years ago, David Mamet tried a similar transmutation of the current political struggle over sexual harassment.
In one photograph here, "Italian Kitchen" (1949), by Benn Mitchell, an auto's glossy surface is a liquid transmutation of the sinuous neon signs surrounding it.
It is a febrile transmutation of chicken-noodle soup, the broth a loud sun-orange with asterisks of red chile, glutted with coconut milk and slipping velvety across the tongue.
