Conching is the alchemy of the art, the transmutation of brown paste into liquid Hershey bars.
Its objectives were rooted in the transmutation of one material to another but varied depending on the time and place.
He wrote for the Chicago-based language quarterly Verbatim, contributing articles like "Alchemical Calques or the Transmutation of Language".
Such a process is not so much sculpture as the transmutation of power through the modification of form".
The theme of emergence is related to theological and philosophical notions of emanations from a single principle and the idea of the transmutation of being.
Iraq and Katrina come to mind, not to mention the transmutation of the Clinton surpluses into the Bush budget deficits and the collapse of the entire economy.
Although he was a firm believer in the transmutation of base metals into gold, Libavius was renowned for his vitriolic attacks against the mysticism and secretiveness of his fellow alchemists.
The most basic form of beta decay involves the transmutation of a neutron into a proton, accompanied by the emission of an electron to keep the balance of electric charge.
In the second place, theology is influenced by its origins in the Greek and Christian traditions, with the implication that the transmutation of this concept to other religions is endangered by the very circumstances of origination.
"The transmutation of sensation into sentiment," he wrote, "the ebb and tide of memory, waves of emotions such as desire, jealousy and artistic euphoria — this is the material of the enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work".
Natural uranium, therefore, can be used in converter and breeder reactors, in which fission is sustained by the rare uranium-235 and plutonium is manufactured at the same time by the transmutation of uranium-238.
