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Crash Course History of Science #10: Alchemy

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In fantasy stories, charlatans in fancy robes promise to turn lead into gold. But real alchemists weren't mythical misers, they were skilled experimentalists backed by theories of matter. They played a huge role in the development of knowledge about one of our fundamental questions: "what is stuff?".

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