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"
The kinds of deeply personal and invisible losses that, in her case, she's alchemized into cathartic creative energy, tilling the fields of her miseries but also her joys in the hope that something new will bloom.
Teaming up with multi-instrumentalist and producer Fadi Tabbal, as well as some of Lebanon's best-known indie musicians, Mattar has alchemized Sparklehorse-styled, synth-infused experimental soundscapes and gracefully understated, often distorted, vocals.
It may be that desire that isn't alchemized, that isn't sublimated, leads to an attitude of fear, paradigms of scarcity, and a worldview characterized by life for some and death for others, violence.
One easily gets the sense, when trying to take seriously what little is known about Donald Trump's platform, of a country turning in on itself, walling itself off and ultimately impoverishing itself by chasing away the Chinese, Muslims, Mexicans and others who have contributed to the vast melting pot that the most globalized country on the planet has alchemized, in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, into prodigious wealth.
alchemize - alter (elements) by alchemy