transmuted

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of Transmute

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Although the action is taken from The Merry Wives of Windsor, some commentators feel that Boito and Verdi have transmuted Shakespeare's play into a wholly Italian work. Source: Internet

Further work found that the far more common uranium-238 isotope can be transmuted into plutonium, which, like uranium-235, is also fissile by thermal neutrons. Source: Internet

In the nuclear reaction that occurs, a beryllium nucleus is transmuted into carbon-12, and one free neutron is emitted, traveling in about the same direction as the alpha particle was heading. Source: Internet

But rhetoric transmuted during this period into the arts of letter writing ( ars dictaminis ) and sermon writing (ars praedicandi). Source: Internet

However, they believed that these forces, especially the sexual instincts, could become entangled and transmuted within the psyche. Source: Internet

Keats' letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817 This passage would eventually be transmuted into the concluding lines of " Ode on a Grecian Urn ": " 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' – that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know". Source: Internet