How To Use Transmutation In A Sentence
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When punk rock burns brightly, it is capable of amazing feats of transmutation.
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Our evaluations after such transmutation will again be merely perspectives, but their point of view will then be affirmative and affirming.
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It's a wondrous transmutation, where the blood of one man is turned into the money of another.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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Because isomer weapons would not involve transmutation of nuclear species, they don't come under the rubric of existing nonproliferation treaties.
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Do we call this transmutation or transubstantiation?
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Of course, I can do multiple transmutations at the same time.
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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
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It's one thing making acid from air and water vapour, quite another for delicate chemical transmutation like this.
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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
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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
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the transmutation of base metals into gold proved to be impossible
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It is concerned with the process of transmutation of matter from one form to another and the transmission of the universal life force, symbolized by the ankh, carried by Isis, bestower of the universal life force - the Goddess.
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The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field.
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Maisie's ‘wondering’ consciousness becomes the medium of a perverse animation, an uncanny crossover or transmutation between animate and inanimate, person and thing.
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Alchemists spent centuries in search of the real things of power - a stone that turned base metals into gold, the secrets of flight and transmutation and, above all, the elixir of life.
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Online auto - testing can improve the efficiency, reduce artificial transmutation and standardize the testing methods.
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In 1903, Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy made the astonishing discovery that natural radioactivity involves transmutation.
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And supposing we should grant that this affection or disposition is the very thing which we call the appetite, it is probable that, by the operation of such kind of food as this, the nourishment may be made small, and so much of it as is convenient for Nature severed from the rest, so that the indigency proceeds not from the transmutation, but from the evacuation and purgation of the passages.
Essays and Miscellanies
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He had long believed in the transmutation of species, although he did not initially accept the concept of single progenitor ancestor.
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It would become incompatible with his organization, or rather it would 'transmute' it, and the process of that transmutation to the senses of other men would be called
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
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But that would require another sort of transmutation.
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[231] The full title has some interest: _Vera circuli et hyperbolae quadratura cui accedit geometriae pars universalis inserviens quantitatum curvarum transmutationi et mensurae.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
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Although Albertus believed in the truth of transmutation himself, he remained skeptical of the "transmuted" metals he had seen, since the artificial product had not been able to withstand the heat of the fire.
Alchemy
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What about psychokinesis, clairvoyance, transmutation, precipitation of matter?
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First and foremost, a kind of alchemical transmutation of all mere rationality into true Reason instrumental rationality being only the leaden and debased form of Reason; of the transmutation of mere fantasy into creative imagination, of knowledge into wisdom; and of science into gnosis.
Blake, Nietzsche, and Sri Aurobindo
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With Darwin we have even more of a puzzle, because we have more evidence in his notebooks on his thoughts about the transmutation of species.
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I realise now that my near Jekyll and Hyde transmutation came about insidiously, like a winter's dawn, a consequence of years of tramping the murky corridors of environmental reporting.
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If you are not aware, there is no change, no transmutation, no movement.
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The transformation, transmutation really, is fascinating.
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It is curious what a subtle but unmistakable transmutation it makes, both in the body of men and women: the woman more blooming, more subtly rounded, her young angularities softened, and her expression either anxious or triumphant: the man much quieter, more inward, the very shapes of his shoulders and his buttocks less assertive, more hesitant.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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And although she does bring together her diverse selves into an integrated whole, such merging is always subject to further transmutations.
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The idea of transmutation through alchemy was one that was taken quite seriously and Dee was granted special rights far beyond someone of his standing.
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The two Latin words interrupt the miraculous transmutation of the classical poet into a speaker of contemporary Italian, creating a sudden lapse in time.
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One of the most private of writers, she has also incorporated part of her past in her stories, over and over again in different transmutations.
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As regards all these three elements, De Quincey's childhood was prosperous; afterwards, vicissitudes came, -- mighty changes capable of affecting all other transmutations, but thoroughly impotent to annul the inwrought grace of a pre-established beauty.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
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The chance to discover a Northrend transmutation has been increased.
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Nor shall I expatiate on the alkahest of that mad scoundrel, Paracelsus, with which he pretended to reduce flints into salt; nor archaeus or spiritus rector of that visionary Van Helmont, his simple, elementary water, his gas, ferments, and transmutations; nor shall
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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A longtime goal of the alchemists was the transmutation of base metals into precious metals.
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Within the core of nuclear reactors, a transmutation-process goes through the sequence of the outer planet-names.
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But by now it's too late: the damage done to the original vision by its transmutation into orthodoxy is irreversible.
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By 1902 Rutherford and his colleague Frederick Soddy were proposing that a different chemical element is formed whenever a radioactive element decays, a process known as transmutation.
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The crone’s cauldron is the place of transmutation.
The Crone and the Cauldron « bindu wiles
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In other words, the radioactive atom has undergone a transmutation from one element to another.
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Bresson instills this notion of transmutation in the core of the film.
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When the corpuscular theory of matter was developed and accepted (which could explain but not predict chemical changes in terms of transmutations), this belief was strengthened.
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The idea of transmutation through alchemy was one that was taken quite seriously and Dee was granted special rights far beyond someone of his standing.
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The primary qualities, being the general laws or forms of organic Energy-transmutation, are in a higher sense ideal, for they are the necessary conditions under which both sense-presentation and ideative representation proceed.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
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The aesthetical transmutation of the pan - media era is closely associated with the new media technology.
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The transmutation of base metal to gold was the paradigm of this sacred task.
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The transmutation was variously an end in itself, a means by which to make an elixir of life, and a route to the creation of a panacea, or universal medicine.
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The principal transmutation facilities, ones that only eliminate allomorphism ... are located on Haluk planets.
Perseus Spur
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Alchemical symbolism permeates several of Shakespeare's plays; King Lear in particular has been interpreted as an allegory of alchemical transmutation.
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The heart-wrenching transmutation of a once calm but stern voice into an almost bird-like cry of despair infected the surrounding cages like an air-borne virus.
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Among the alchemists's asserted aims were the transmutation of base metals into gold, as well as the preparation of an elixir of longevity and a universal cure for illness.
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He seeks symbols for his tragic inner transmutations in the external world.
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I knew the rightness of the books, the relation of high thinking to high-conduct, the transmutation of midnight thought into action in the high place on the poop of a coal-carrier in the year nineteen-thirteen, my woman beside me, my ancestors behind me, my slant-eyed servitors under me, the beasts beneath me and beneath the heel of me.
CHAPTER XLIX
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In the historical process, the instinctive drive to change or wish to be part of a massive transmutation of identity inevitably leads to codification.
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It might be safe and legitimate enough, when we find a fossil organism imbedded in the earth, to ascribe its production to the ordinary law of generation, even although we had not witnessed the fact of its birth, provided the same species is known to have existed previously; but when we find _new races_ coming into being, for which the ordinary law of derivation cannot account, we are not at liberty to apply the same rule to a case so essentially different, and still less to postulate _a spontaneous generation_, or a _transmutation of species_, for which we have no experience at all.
Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
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So he either has complete fixism of species, or he has transmutation of species.
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And along with this --- initially --- almost imperceptible transmutation (Wesley noticed details.
BEHINDLINGS
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Ethnicity and location have undergone interesting transmutations in contemporary times.
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Among the alchemists's asserted aims were the transmutation of base metals into gold, as well as the preparation of an elixir of longevity and a universal cure for illness.
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[231] The full title has some interest: _Vera circuli et hyperbolae quadratura cui accedit geometriae pars universalis inserviens quantitatum curvarum transmutationi et mensurae.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
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The example cited by you, as proof of beneficial mutations (of bacterial resistance to antibiotics) is irrelevant to the Darwinian explanation of the transmutation of species.
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The transmutation of the elements was no longer the privilege of the radioactive substances alone.
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This transmutation into pole-dancing temptresses doesn't do anything for me.
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The alchemist experiences death, life, rebirth, witnesses the magical properties of transmutation in the bain-marie as well as her own bodymind.
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As a corpuscularian he believed that transmutation was physically possible.
Sticky Wants to Grab
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The notion of particularity serves both politically and epistemologically to blur the transmutation of socialism back into capitalism.
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They have formed the basis for the English theatrical tradition, and they continue to find realization in readers' imaginations and, in richly varied transmutations, on the world's stages.
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The principal goal of alchemists was the conversion or transmutation of base metals like lead into gold.
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Bresson instills this notion of transmutation in the core of the film.
