Definition of "transmuting" [transmuting]

• Present participle of transmute. (verb)

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• "In 1932 they succeeded in transmuting lithium and boron by high energy protons."
• "This is odd to hear because Hare has made his name by transmuting political actualité into art."
• "A chapter on macrobiotics — literally the art of long life — makes the point that, in China, the idea of transmuting minerals to gold was never divorced from the idea of using minerals to achieve immortality, or at least to heal ills; in the West, Needham remarks, comparable ideas only began to flower with Paracelsus."