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Nov 19, 2008
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Alchemy

(Al-ki-me) is the Arabic al kimia (the secret art); so called not only because it was carried on in secret, but because its main objects were the three great secrets of science—the transmutation of baser metals into gold, the universal solvent, and the elixir of life.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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