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(The following is my review of Mark Morrisson’s Modern Alchemy. The final version was published in Aries 11.1). In 1901 physicist Ernest Rutherford and chemist Frederick Soddy, tucked away in a laboratory at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, were struck with amazement as they watched the element thorium transform into an inert gas. Soddy, exclaiming that [...]