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Question
‘Alchemists are older words for Chemists’. Discuss the statement in brief.
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Solution
Alchemy and alchemists are older words for Chemistry and chemists where –alchemists transformed or created substances through a seemingly – magical process. An alchemist Nicolas Flamel claimed to transform metals into gold.
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