transmutation

How To Use transmutation In A Sentence

• When punk rock burns brightly, it is capable of amazing feats of transmutation.
• Our evaluations after such transmutation will again be merely perspectives, but their point of view will then be affirmative and affirming.
• It's a wondrous transmutation, where the blood of one man is turned into the money of another. THE CURSE OF CHALION
• Because isomer weapons would not involve transmutation of nuclear species, they don't come under the rubric of existing nonproliferation treaties.
• Do we call this transmutation or transubstantiation?
• Of course, I can do multiple transmutations at the same time.
• This is why Darwin resisted the use the term preferring the word “transmutation” which I think came originally from Lamarck whose scheme was also progressive but involved environmental mechanisms as well as God-given drives to complexity and spontaneous generation. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review: Why Should Words Have Meanings? (Chapter 1) - The Panda's Thumb
• It's one thing making acid from air and water vapour, quite another for delicate chemical transmutation like this.
• Our only refuge is in the worms, and how to account for the transmutation of any worm with which we are at present acquainted into a form like the Leptus, with its mandibulated mouth and jointed legs, seems at first well nigh impossible. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
• Continuing these investigations, Rutherford was able in 1919 to produce transmutations of atomic nuclei by bombarding nitrogen with helium nuclei from a radium source. Nobel Prize in Physics 1951 - Presentation Speech