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TOEFL EXERCISES - LESSONS 98 TO
100 |
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QUESTIONS # 52-55 refer to the
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The earliest authentic works on
European alchemy are those of the English monk Roger Bacon
and the German philosopher St. Albertus Magnus. In their
treatises they maintained that gold was the perfect metal
and that inferior metals such as lead and mercury were
removed by various degrees of imperfection from gold. They
further asserted that these base metals could be transmuted
to gold by blending them with a substance even more perfect
than gold. This elusive substance was referred to as the "philosopher's
stone". |
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Roger Bacon and
St. Albertus Magnus had the same ... |
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It is probable
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According to the
alchemists, the difference between base metals
and gold was one of ... |
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The "philosopher's
stone" was ... |
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