Sentences with phrase «of turning lead into gold»
Postnuclear physicists still dismiss astrology but could only object to alchemy on grounds such as not being a cost - effective way of turning lead into gold as well as posing serious health and environmental hazards.
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Like the classic alchemist's dream of turning lead into gold, it has never proven workable but has always attracted passionate believers.
«The old alchemist's trick of turning lead into gold has nothing on The Disaster Artist, a film that masters the trickier feat of transforming trash into art» — PH, featuring an interview with Dave Franco
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If the holy grail of medieval alchemists was turning lead into gold, how much more magical would it be to draw gold from, well, poop?
At the same time new technologies — such as mercury - free devices for separating gold from ore or bone char that can bind lead in soil, rendering it chemically inert in the human body — may help turn some of these problems into a legacy of the past.
A few centuries of geniuses would typically waste their lives locked in their basements, ignoring their wives while trying to turn lead into gold.
It is as if Saccharomyces cerevisiae has found the philosopher's stone but instead of changing lead to gold, it turns noncoding DNA into a gene that codes for a partially structured protein.
The word alchemy evokes an image of a medieval conjurer murmuring incantations over a boiling cauldron, attempting to turn lead into gold.
The answer to whether gold has a higher chance of experiencing big devaluation has to do with forces outside anyone's control, if a big new mine of gold is discovered that could affect prices, but also if the economy turns around it could lead investors to pull out of gold and back into the stock markets.
Its title refers to the name of the furnace devised to turn lead into gold.
Perpetual motion machines, turning lead into gold and capturing moonbeams in a jar are just some of the fanciful notions that have attracted human attention over the eons.