1N-UNCOUNT 炼金术;炼丹术Alchemy was a form of chemistry studied in the Middle Ages, which was concerned with trying to discover ways to change ordinary metals into gold. 炼金术;炼丹术
2N-UNCOUNT (改变事物的)魔力Alchemy is the power to change or create things in a way which seems mysterious and magical. (改变事物的)魔力 [literary]
Let us imagine that by some political alchemy it had been possible to make all men equal.