This art of transmuting metals broke up into branches; the esoterics drew away from lab practices
Common aims were chrysopoeia, the transmutation of "base metals" (e.g., lead) 
into "noble" ones (particularly ... Modern discussions of alchemy are generally 
split into an examination of its... [DOC] [TLE] MacGuffins - THE COUNT: St. Germain [PAR] Believers in the transmutation of metals had or thought they had coins of silver 
and of ... light and weariness -- form the metal that must be transmuted into the 
coin of Eternity.