Where Did the Word Alchemy Come From? Word Origins (545) Three Meanings - Alchemy - Tutor Nick P
Tutor Nick P
[{'start': '0.640', 'end': '7.360', 'text': 'Hi. This is Tutor Nick P, and this is Word Origins\xa0\n(545). The word origin today is alchemy. And we'}, {'start': '7.360', 'end': '11.200', 'text': 'got three meanings and three uses. Okay. If\xa0\nsomebody wants a screenshot, do it right now.'}, {'start': '11.200', 'end': '16.800', 'text': "Let's go right to it. All right. Here's the first\xa0\none. The former practice of trying to change base"}, {'start': '16.800', 'end': '24.560', 'text': 'metals into gold. All right. Number two. The study\xa0\nor pursuit of looking for an elixir or a universal'}, {'start': '24.560', 'end': '30.080', 'text': "panacea. You know, like a cure-all. Something that\xa0\ncould cure everybody's diseases. Number three."}, {'start': '30.080', 'end': '37.600', 'text': 'By extension, the act of causing any mysterious\xa0\nchange or through a process that is so effective,'}, {'start': '37.600', 'end': '44.560', 'text': "it's like magic. Let's continue. The early\xa0\npractice of alchemy dates back to ancient Egypt in"}, {'start': '44.560', 'end': '53.360', 'text': 'Alexandria. The origin of the term itself may have\xa0\nderived from Arabic (al-kimiya) and ancient'}, {'start': '53.360', 'end': '60.640', 'text': 'Greek (khumia) which meant the art of alloying\xa0\nor basically mixing metals. And (khuma) meant an'}, {'start': '60.640', 'end': '67.440', 'text': 'ingot bar. You know, that was like finished at the\xa0\nend. Some say (al-kimiya) in Arabic "al" was like'}, {'start': '67.440', 'end': '73.840', 'text': 'an article It meant "the" and "kimya." Actually,\xa0\ncame from the Greek word which meant the pouring'}, {'start': '73.840', 'end': '80.480', 'text': 'and mixing and transmutation. You know, actually\xa0\nchanging things ... Into something else from'}, {'start': '80.480', 'end': '88.560', 'text': 'Greek. And the Greeks may have been influenced by\xa0\nthe Egyptian words of like either "keme" or "khem"'}, {'start': '88.560', 'end': '95.120', 'text': 'or I think they even say something like "kmt" or\xa0\nsomething meaning black earth or fertile soil.'}, {'start': '95.120', 'end': '100.080', 'text': "All right. Good And we got four examples to show\xa0\njust how it's used. Some say the ancient practice"}, {'start': '100.080', 'end': '106.960', 'text': 'of alchemy is what led to our modern science of\xa0\nchemistry. And you could even see a similarity'}, {'start': '106.960', 'end': '114.160', 'text': 'between chemistry and alchemy. Okay. Number two.\xa0\nIf alchemists had ever figured out how to make'}, {'start': '114.160', 'end': '120.960', 'text': 'gold by mixing metals would they have publicly\xa0\nannounced, it. You know, like this is what we often'}, {'start': '120.960', 'end': '125.440', 'text': 'ask anytime we talk about this. If you figured\xa0\nout how to make gold will you share that with the'}, {'start': '125.440', 'end': '133.040', 'text': 'rest of the world? Would they share the alchemy\xa0\nprocess. All right. I did hear or I did once read'}, {'start': '133.040', 'end': '138.320', 'text': 'that they did figure out how to make gold, but the\xa0\nprocess is so expensive. The price of gold would'}, {'start': '138.320', 'end': '146.800', 'text': 'have to go up to like past somewhere from $50,000\xa0\nto $100,000 per ounce to be worth making it. All'}, {'start': '146.800', 'end': '152.720', 'text': 'right. Number three. One of the original purposes\xa0\nof alchemy was to try to find a cure-all or a'}, {'start': '152.720', 'end': '160.960', 'text': 'panacea. Good. And the last one is more like the\xa0\nlast meaning. And sometimes used a little bit as a'}, {'start': '160.960', 'end': '168.720', 'text': 'joke. That beauty consultant by some extraordinary\xa0\nalchemy has the power to take someone extremely'}, {'start': '168.720', 'end': '175.680', 'text': 'unattractive and turn them into a knockout. A\xa0\nvery beautiful person. Okay. Anyway, I hope you'}, {'start': '175.680', 'end': '179.680', 'text': 'got it. I hope it was clear. I Hope it was very\xa0\ninformative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.'}]