Chemy vs. Alchemy

(obsolete) alchemy, chemistry prior to their being properly distinguished

Chemy (French pronunciation: ​[ʃəmi]) is a commune of the Nord department in northern France.

(uncountable) The ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry.

(countable) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.

Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.

An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet.

Example: ‘Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy.’;

Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious.

Example: ‘Kissing with golden face the meadows green,Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.’;

a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times

the way two individuals relate to each other;

Example: ‘their chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each other’; ‘a mysterious alchemy brought them together’;

the medieval forerunner of chemistry, concerned with the transmutation of matter, in particular with attempts to convert base metals into gold or find a universal elixir

Example: ‘occult sciences, such as alchemy and astrology’;

a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination

Example: ‘finding the person who's right for you requires a very subtle alchemy’;

Alchemy (from Arabic: al-kīmiyā; from Ancient Greek: khumeía) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. In its Western form, alchemy is first attested in a number of pseudepigraphical texts written in Greco-Roman Egypt during the first few centuries CE.Alchemists attempted to purify, mature, and perfect certain materials.