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What is a transmutation?

What is a transmutation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) Change, alteration.
  2. The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation.
  3. (alchemy) Specifically, the supposed transformation of one element into another, especially of a base metal into gold.
  4. (physics) The actual transformation of one element into another by a nuclear reaction.
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The notion of particularity serves both politically and epistemologically to blur the transmutation of socialism back into capitalism.
It's one thing making acid from air and water vapour, quite another for delicate chemical transmutation like this.
In 1903, Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy made the astonishing discovery that natural radioactivity involves transmutation.
The alchemist experiences death, life, rebirth, witnesses the magical properties of transmutation in the bain-marie as well as her own bodymind.
Our evaluations after such transmutation will again be merely perspectives, but their point of view will then be affirmative and affirming.
In other words, the radioactive atom has undergone a transmutation from one element to another.

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