Alchemist

[Sarah]

One who practices alchemy.You are alchemist; make gold. Shak.

[Britney]

A person who practises alchemy.

[Vania]

Starting in Egypt, [alchemists] were the predecessor to the modern chemist. Though they are largely discredited by the scientific community due to the fact that many included religion and the occult to fill in the blanks, they made great strides in scientific research, sometimes by accident (i.e. discovery of [gunpowder] trying to find immortality). After egypt, the next earliest is probably in China, where gunpowder was discovered. Many famous physicists were alchemistds, such as [Isaac Newton]. Today there are still alchemists, though they practice (usually) practical [alchemy]. This is the practice of alchemy that actually has a purpose, and the study and reproducion o=f ancient alchemical experiments, usually involving finding out both how the experiments were beleived to work by ancient alchemists, and how they work in terms of current chemists, and whether there is any connection.

[Tina]

Older version of a [chemist], [usaly] combining science and [superstition].

[Sommer]

Typically defined as a scientist who can [allegedly] convert any everyday object into gold, the more modern definition is as follows:

Alchemist: The leader, or head man/woman of the under-aged, underground alcohol trade. One who is able to turn money into alcohol through the [networking] of older non law-abiding citizens who will buy liquor and beer for younger [affluent] teenagers. Instead of being able to turn objects into gold, he/she can turn money into alcohol aka the gold of the youth.

[Tina]

A nicer way of telling someone who does or says [something stupid] or [illogical], who has the intelligence to know better, that they have done something stupid or illogical, without thinking
[Alchemy] being the action of doing or saying the illogical thing.