While the creation of a new global industry is an ambitious thing to chase, that's exactly the kind of fortuitous materials discovery that Belgian engineer Laurence Humier hopes her new Alchemist Matter Kit will inspire.
It consists of three modular chemistry kits that look like mash-ups of a portable radio and Connect Four, and it's designed to give kids a tangible sense of what chemical interactions can do. One of the things that make it different from the kits that have come before is that each of these comes with a mission. Each of the three rectangular play kits is designed around one chemical interaction. The test tubes include six different kitchen and cooking materials meant to be mixed or splashed with water.
Awards Recognizing and celebrating excellence in chemistry and celebrate your achievements. Funding Funding to support the advancement of the chemical sciences through research projects. Flame Out This demonstration is common now, but consider how it looked to alchemists—an invisible substance mysteriously extinguishing a candle flame.
You can turn copper into silver with ease with this demo! Or can you? But how much are they really worth? Take your writing back in time with a homemade quill pen. Disappearing Ink Alchemists would have loved these ink recipes to keep their notes even more secret. Make your own! Recreate the effect of paper that appears even older than you! The Secrets of Alchemy Want to know a secret?
Take a look at a glowing element, plus learn one of the alchemists' favorite liquids. What has he found out? The Alchemist This Dutch painting has its own alchemical secrets to find. What do you see? See more words from the same century.
George Clooney's declaration of love at the Golden Globes Accessed 12 Nov. More Definitions for alchemy. Nglish: Translation of alchemy for Spanish Speakers. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Definition of alchemy. Alchemist : Someone Who Transforms Things for the Better Today we recognize alchemy as a pseudoscience, and give chemistry its rightful place as a serious scientific field, but the two terms initially overlapped in meaning before separating by the 17th century, just as astrology and astronomy did during the same period.
The History of Alchemy The medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy that focused on the attempt to change less valuable metals into gold, to find a universal cure for disease, and to discover a means of prolonging life indefinitely is called alchemy. Examples of alchemy in a Sentence She practiced her alchemy in the kitchen, turning a pile of vegetables into a delicious salad.
The company hoped for some sort of economic alchemy that would improve business. Recent Examples on the Web Today a substantial subset of people seem to regard science as the equivalent of necromancy or alchemy , or, like, Rumpelstiltskin. First Known Use of alchemy 15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1. Learn More About alchemy. Time Traveler for alchemy The first known use of alchemy was in the 15th century See more words from the same century.
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