Transmutation Explained

Transmutation may refer to:

Pseudoscience and science

Alchemy

• Chrysopoeia and argyropoeia, the turning of base metals, such as lead or copper, into gold and silver
• Magnum opus (alchemy), the creation of the philosopher's stone
• Mental transmutation, the transformation of a mental state

Biology

• Biological transmutation, the claim that nuclear transmutation occurs in living organisms
• Transmutation of species, the change of one species into another

Physics

• Dimensional transmutation, a physical mechanism providing a linkage between a dimensionless parameter and a dimensionful parameter
• Nuclear transmutation, the conversion of a chemical element or isotope into another chemical element or isotope

Other uses in pseudoscience and science

• Sexual transmutation, a deflection of sexual instincts into non-sexual activity

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• Transmutations (film), a 1985 British horror film
• Transmutate, a fictional character in the Beast Wars franchise

Music

• Transmutation (album), a 2008 album by Ophiolatry
• Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis), a 1992 album by Praxis
• Transmutator, an alternative name of the American electronic music band Razed in Black
• Transmute (album), a 2021 album by Press to Meco

See also

• Mutation (disambiguation)
• Transformation (disambiguation)
• Transmutant, a 2015 album by Katie Noonan
• Transubstantiation, the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of the Blood of Christ