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As interesting as it is complex, used as criticized, alchemy could be described as a proto or pseudo science that has many magical aspects that do not respect the parameters and guidelines of science traditional Western and therefore make it impossible to consider it as such. Alchemy is a practice as well as a philosophy about life and human existence, based on the search for the elixir of life, substance that can be obtained through the wisdom and of the magical practices that are known for this pseudo science.

The word alchemy comes from the Arabic language, a language in which it has several meanings, all of them related precisely to this notion of the elixir of life and with the chemical practices that are carried out to achieve it (the transmutation or alteration of metals, for example). Alchemy was a very common practice or philosophy for many ancient eastern societies that had not yet known what we understand today as science rational and empirical. Egypt, as well as the Mesopotamian peoples, India, Persia, China, Korea, Japan, and other Western societies such as the

medieval have resorted to different forms of alchemy that have had to do with a conception somewhat magical of reality.

For alchemy, the main practice is precisely the transformation of common metals into noble and much more important metals such as gold or silver. This transmutation represents reaching the elixir of life or longevity since it goes from simple chemical structures to much more complex and rich chemical structures.

For many people who are guided purely and exclusively by the laws of modern science (empirical and rational), the assumptions and ideas of alchemy are false or unreal. However, many consider that some questions of modern science in its different branches may be related to the principles of ancient alchemy.

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