chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
Organizing the selected plants by their growing season--either early, mid or late--the authors suggest a brilliant array of ways to alchemize their various parts.
Enceladus's power to view "the misery [Hyperion's] brilliance had betray'd / To the most hateful seeing of itself" is noble precisely because it embraces a painful truth: he can no longer, like a god, alchemize pain into balm (2:369-70).
The origin of the universe will be traced in equations because words cannot reach back to where there was nothing, save they alchemize. Poetry is born in the absence of the possibility of poetry.
She wanted to feel the loss of the Lopez family in her bones, to alchemize all that had happened into a suffering whose parameters were completely knowable.