What is Alchemy?

We have all been presented with the rather romanticised idea of matter, the fundamental particles of matter and how they interact to form different substances through the branch of science that we call chemistry. But what was there before chemistry? It’s not that we were not curious about the behaviour of matter back then, there were philosophers who tried to transform metals into gold in search of an elixir. The forerunner of chemistry is called alchemy, it served as the beginning of chemistry. Learn about alchemy through this interactive video.

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