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  2. Terraria - Wikipedia

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    Terraria is a 2D sandbox game with gameplay that revolves around exploration, building, crafting, combat, survival, and mining, playable in both single-player and multiplayer modes. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The game has a 2D sprite tile-based graphical style reminiscent of the 16-bit sprites found on the Super NES . [ 4 ]

  3. Nuclear transmutation - Wikipedia

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    The term transmutation dates back to alchemy.Alchemists pursued the philosopher's stone, capable of chrysopoeia – the transformation of base metals into gold. [3] While alchemists often understood chrysopoeia as a metaphor for a mystical or religious process, some practitioners adopted a literal interpretation and tried to make gold through physical experimentation.

  4. Annihilation (film) - Wikipedia

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    The story follows a group of scientists who enter the Shimmer, a mysterious quarantined zone of mutating plants and animals caused by an alien presence. Released theatrically in the United States by Paramount Pictures on February 23, 2018, and in China on April 13, [ 6 ] Annihilation was released digitally by Netflix in a number of other ...

  5. Chrysopoeia - Wikipedia

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    In alchemy, the term chrysopoeia (from Ancient Greek χρυσοποιία (khrusopoiía) 'gold-making') refers to the artificial production of gold, most commonly by the alleged transmutation of base metals such as lead.

  6. Philosopher's stone - Wikipedia

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    A leading opponent was the Persian polymath Avicenna (Ibn Sina), who discredited the theory of the transmutation of substances, stating, "Those of the chemical craft know well that no change can be effected in the different species of substances, though they can produce the appearance of such change." [11]: 196–197

  7. Transmutation of species - Wikipedia

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    Transmutation had previously been used as a term in alchemy to describe the transformation of base metals into gold. Other names for evolutionary ideas used in this period include the development hypothesis (one of the terms used by Darwin) and the theory of regular gradation , used by William Chilton in the periodical press such as The Oracle ...

  8. Projection (alchemy) - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of Sedziwój performing a transmutation for Sigismund III by Jan Matejko, 1867. Projection was the ultimate goal of Western alchemy.Once the philosopher's stone or powder of projection had been created, the process of projection would be used to transmute a lesser substance into a higher form; often lead into gold.

  9. Maclura tricuspidata - Wikipedia

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    Maclura tricuspidata is a tree native to East Asia, occasionally grown for its fruit, somewhat similar to that of the related mulberry (Morus spp.). Common names