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How to pronounce “alchemy”

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Practice the English pronunciation of alchemy with real speech in context.
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Real speech example
Can Salad Dressing Transform Capitalism?And so, just like any good salad dressing, it's the alchemy of the right ingredients.
Definition summary
(uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.

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How to pronounce alchemy

Can Salad Dressing Transform Capitalism?

And so, just like any good salad dressing, it's the alchemy of the right ingredients.

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Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • (uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
  • (countable) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
  • (computing, slang, countable) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.

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