The meaning of TRANSMUTATION is an act or instance of transmuting or being transmuted. How to use transmutation in a sentence. Alchemist: Someone Who Transforms Things for the Better.

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Nuclear transmutation is the conversion of one chemical element into another. These particles are likely to have undergone several transmutations in their short lives.

Transmutations occur naturally through radioactive decay, or artificially by bombarding the nucleus of a substance with subatomic particles.

transmutation (of/from something) (to/into something) an act of changing, or of being changed, into something different. The alchemist's aim was the transmutation of base metals into gold. …

Transmutation, conversion of one chemical element into another. A transmutation entails a change in the structure of atomic nuclei and hence may be induced by a nuclear reaction …

It's a wondrous transmutation, where the blood of one man is turned into the money of another.

transmutation the process or act of change, especially from one thing to another, as the change from base metal to gold, pursued by the alchemists. — transmutationist, n. — transmutative, adj.

3 days ago · Years later, scientists learned that the sun’s light—visible and invisible—is merely the by-product of a process alchemists had vainly tried to reproduce for centuries—the …

trans•mu•ta•tion (trans′myo̅o̅ tā′ shən, tranz′-), n. the act or process of transmuting. the fact or state of being transmuted. change into another nature, substance, form, or condition. [Biol.]the …