Alchemy Vocabulary

noun a skilled craftsman or inventor

• The artificer meticulously crafted each piece of jewelry by hand.
• My neighbor is an artificer who loves to tinker with old cars in his garage.
• That artificer dude is a wizard with fixing electronics.
• As an artificer of words, the poet weaved together beautiful verses that touched the hearts of many.

noun a substance once believed to exist in all combustible materials and to be released during combustion

• The theory of phlogiston, an outdated concept in chemistry, posited that all combustible objects contained a substance called phlogiston.
• Back in the day, scientists actually believed in this thing called phlogiston that they thought was responsible for combustion.
• Phlogiston was like the OG fire juice according to old-school chemists.
• Her passion for the project burned like the phlogiston fueling an ancient alchemical experiment.