Sentence examples for transmutation as from inspiring English sources

We conclude that Darwin was testing the predicted patterns of both Brocchian and Lamarckian transmutation as early as 1832 at the outset of his work on the Beagle.

They come from that intensive year of overworked transmutation as a resident doctor.

He also showed, by using iron to recover the copper, that this displacement of one metal from its salt by using a second metal was not because of transmutation, as many had held.

The IEER describes evaluations in favour of transmutation as "seriously deficient" and made "mainly by those who would like to see a continuation of nuclear power".At the moment, though, nuclear power's supporters seem to have the upper hand, as many people think it is the only practical way to generate large amounts of electricity without producing climate-changing carbon dioxide.

A companion paper (Dominici 2010, this issue) provides for the first time an English translation of the key components of Brocchian transmutation as originally published in Brocchi (1814).

That same squareness and solidity of build, that pale reddish-blond colouring that served, via some mysterious transmutation, as a blank slate on which the performer could build each man he played anew and that vague agelessness that allowed him to play fellows older or less functional than himself became his primed canvas for painting and repainting himself as someone else.

Darwin is rightfully credited with being the most influential, although by no means the first individual to broach the subject of descent with modification, or transmutation theory, as he put it (for an overview of pre-evolutionary ideas related to human origins, see Greene 1959, Bowler 2003).

The optimal MSR design offers a remarkably high transmutation capability – fissioning of as high as 99.8% of the TRU fed.

The quest for improved neutron capture cross-sections for advanced reactor concepts, transmutation of radioactive wastes as well as for astrophysical scenarios of neutron capture nucleosynthesis has motivated new experimental efforts based on modern techniques.

(Nuclear reactions and human-directed nuclear transmutation had been accomplished as early as 1917, but by using natural radioactive bombardment with alpha particles).

His earliest discussions of transmutation, in his essay February 1835, as well as the Red Notebook and the early pages of Notebook B (the latter two written in 1837 back in England), contain Brocchi's analogy, including the idea of inherent species longevities.