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"
On the other hand, sublimated desire, alchemized desire, leads to an attitude of love, paradigms of abundance, justice, creativity, and life for all living things.
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.
Simultaneously existing as local, national, and global space, online media structures like the 26/11 network-archive enable the practice of individual private remembrance to be alchemized as the memory of a public that is likewise local, national and global.
Here on the Big Island, I dream of poke from Hilo's Suisan Fish Market: cubed raw seafood alchemized into onoliciousness through some combination of onions, seaweed, sesame seeds, and spices, then dressed (or not) with soy sauce or sesame oil.
alchemize - alter (elements) by alchemy