Transmutations, various

There is an interesting account of Archibald Cockren s discovery of various transmuting tinctures in his Alchemy rediscovered and restored, 1940"... 

As additionally appears to have been the case of a covert transmutation of Marcel Duchamp into Rrose Selavy, Maier says, that this [mutation of gender] does actually happen in the Philosophical Work need not be a surprise. There are some people, if we may believe the stories, who also change their sex. Thus the Poets tell us about the sex changes of Cenea Iphis and Tiresias [and various others]. In more modern times, continues Maier,... 

Metathesis of alkenes has been reviewed in terms of cross-metathesis, ring opening and closing, disproportionation, transmutation, and self-metathesis.34 A review on catalytic processes involving ft -carbon elimination has summarized recent progress on palladium-catalysed C-C bond cleavage in various cyclic and acyclic systems.35... 

Some stable nuclei, which are not radioactive, can undergo radioactive changes by bombarding them with various particles. These bombarded nuclei are transmuted into new nuclei as a result of the bombardment. This process is called artificial radioactivity. 

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