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U2U2U2
Joined: 06 Jul 2001 Posts: 5467 Location: Shipsterns Bluff, Tasmania. Colorado
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darn tootin I like FIG NEWTONS::
The word chemistry comes from the word alchemy, an earlier set of practices that encompassed elements of chemistry, metallurgy, philosophy, astrology, astronomy, mysticism and medicine; it is commonly thought of as the quest to turn lead or another common starting material into gold.[8] Alchemy, which was practiced around 330, is the study of the composition of waters, movement, growth, embodying, disembodying, drawing the spirits from bodies and bonding the spirits within bodies (Zosimos).[9] An alchemist was called a 'chemist' in popular speech, and later the suffix "-ry" was added to this to describe the art of the chemist as "chemistry".
The word alchemy in turn is derived from the Persian word kīmīa (كيميا) which is already altered into its Arabic, al-kīmīā (الکیمیاء), form. In origin, the term is borrowed from the Greek χημία or χημεία.[10][11] This may have Egyptian origins. Many believe that al-kīmīā is derived from χημία, which is in turn derived from the word Chemi or Kimi, which is the ancient name of Egypt in Egyptian.[10] Alternately, al-kīmīā may be derived from χημεία, meaning "cast together".[12]
wait for it and will find my board of 2013-14 is called a Alchemy
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whitevan01
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"All science is physics, the rest is stamp collecting"
- Ernest Rutherford, physicist, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
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Ugly_Bird
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