Alchemy in itself is not really all that mysterious. In reality, it is the patriarch of both Science and Chemistry. so in a sense, all of us are learning a form of alchemy when in school.
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Not really.
"Alchemy is both a philosophy and an ancient practice focused on the attempt to change base metals into gold, investigating the preparation of the "elixir of longevity", and achieving ultimate wisdom, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances described as possessing unusual properties."
"Chemistry is the science of matter and the changes it undergoes."
Alchemy is bogus for the most part and was based heavily on wishful thinking and superstitions, but the research made in pursuit of the goals of alchemy did give birth to the scientific field of chemistry. That doesn't make chemistry a form of alchemy.
Though here's an interesting tidbit; we've actually learned how to synthesize gold from other materials, actually fulfilling one of the original goals of alchemy. Modern science acheived what real-world alchemy never could have.
If you stripped the concept of alchemy down to the bare minimum of "a method of changing one pure substance into another" then alchemy could be argued for as existing.
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Sorry about the science lesson. XD