English-Spanish translations for alchemy

alquimiaDurante siglos, el mercurio desempeñó un papel crucial en la alquimia y en las ciencias ocultas. For many centuries, mercury had a crucial role in alchemy and the secret sciences. Aparte de la mera alquimia política, ¿se mencionó siquiera el verdadero cáncer social del desempleo? Aside from mere political alchemy, was the true social cancer of unemployment even mentioned? Esto se debe en gran medida, como hemos escuchado hoy, a la sofisticación de los instrumentos financieros, que algunos han equiparado a la alquimia. This is due by and large, as we have heard today, to the sophistication of financial instruments which are viewed by some as akin to alchemy.

The ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry
The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation
Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm

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