Alchemy is an ancient practice that aimed to transform base metals into gold or other precious substances, as well as seeking to create a universal panacea, a cure-all elixir that could cure any disease and grant immortality. The key to alchemy was the concept of transmutation, the transformation of one substance into another.At the heart of alchemy was the belief that everything in the universe was connected and that the properties of metals and minerals were linked to the movements of the plan