Alchemy and The Scientific Connection

Alchemy and The Scientific Connection

1. Earth Science

   • Role of Water: Identify and describe the atmospheric and hydrosperic conditions related to weather systems.
     • Alchemy turns matter into something else like how the water does on the atmosphere
     • Water in the atmosphere goes from a gas to a liquid to make rain. If its cold enough rain turns into snow.

2. Chemistry

   • Provide evidence to support the fact that common substances have the ability to change into new substances.
     • Alchemy is the transformation of base metals into gold.
     • Some substances can undergo something called chemical change when it turns into something else.

3. Astronomy

   • Regular and Predictable Motion: Identify and explain celestial phenomena using the regular and predictable motion of objects in the solar system
     • The base metals are centered around the planet’s movements
     • The rotation of the moon causes lunar and solar eclipeses. The rotation of Earth causes night and day.

4. Biology

   • Change Over Time:Recognize and describe that evolutionary change in species over time occurs as a result of genetic variation in organisms and environmental changes.
     • When an alchemist reaches the philosopher’s stone they can change any substance or animal into another.
     • When a speices gains a genetic variation that will benifit it. The speices will specifically breed with that one.

5. Physics

   • Recognize and explain that energy can neither be created or destroyed; rather it changes form or is transferred through the action of forces.
     • With alchemy the amount of energy you get out is as much as you put in otherwise known as the equivalent.
     • When atoms go from form of matter to another then back again it will weigh the same.

6. Thermodynamics

   • Identify and explain that heat energy is a product of the conversion of one form of energy to another.
     • when transmutations acquire they are very hot but mostly when they are making gold.
     • The rapid movement of atoms in the atmosphere makes energy very efectively.

7. Enviromental issues

   • Recognize and explain how human activities can accelerate or magnify many naturally occurring changes.
     • Alchemists make different metals out of base metals.
     • Humans build dams and spill chemicals into water which effects the ecosystem.