A German alchemist tried to transmute silver into gold.

一位德国的炼金术士试图将白银炼成黄金。

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Fire-lighting was revolutionised by the discovery of phosphorus, isolated in 1669 by a German alchemist trying to transmute silver into gold.

1669年 德国化学家在试图将 银改变成金时分离出的磷的发现，根本的改变了火的点燃。

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Surely there was a way to keep the disinterred metal root balls sprouting in the lab, coaxing their fruit to full succulent ripeness as the noblest of metals — lead into silver, copper to gold?

真的有方法可以让这些挖掘出来的金属根茎球在实验室里继续生长，就像成熟多汁的果实一样变成贵金属 -- 从铅变成银，从铜变成金？

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The government forecasts a 61 percent jump in gross ticket sales this year, which could turn the nation's new silver screens into boxoffice gold.

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The conference is the brainchild of Mary Furlong, 64, a serial entrepreneur and the author of Turning Silver into Gold: How to Profit in the New Boomer Marketplace.

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The silver panic spilled over into gold and copper as well, though to a much smaller degree.

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Heavy daily flows into gold, silver and foreign markets show the path of capital flight.

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