The word alchemy may derive from the Old French alquimie, which is from the Medieval Latin alchimia, and which is in turn from the Arabic al-kimia. This term itself is derived from the Ancient Greek chemeia atau chemia with the addition of the Arabic definite artikel al- The ancient Greek word may have been derived from a version of the Egyptian name for Egypt, which was itself based on the Ancient Egyptian word kēme (hieroglyphic Khmi, black earth, as opposed to desert sand).
The word could also have originally derived from the Greek chumeia meaning "mixture" and referring to pharmaceutical...

The state of Amestris has reached it's closing article...and the shortest 1. Since Roy became king Ishvallins have been telah diberi their homeland bak and it's been re-built completely. Tht was only part 1.
All the borders have been re-established and the treaties made lebih livable for the other country. We've had no wars after the riots from the Amestris up-rising calmed. Scar was put in charge of teaching the old ways 2 the younger children along with a half-Ishvallan from Brigs. They seem 2 b doing their job well.
The border with Drachma was among the 1st treaties 2 b worked with. They were compliant...

The origin of Western alchemy may generally be traced to Hellenistic Egypt. The Hellenistic city of Alexandria was a center of Greek alchemical knowledge, and retained its preeminence through most of the Greek and Roman periods. Here, elements of technology, religion, mythology, and Greek philosophy, each with their own much longer histories, combined to form the earliest known records of alchemy in the West. Zosimos of Panopolis wrote the oldest known buku on alchemy while Mary the Jewess is credited as being the first non-fictitious Western alchemist. They wrote in Greek and lived in Egypt...

In the eyes of a variety of esoteric and Hermetic practitioners, the hati, tengah-tengah of alchemy is spiritual. Transmutation of lead into emas is presented as an analogy for personal transmutation, purification, and perfection. This approach is often termed 'spiritual', 'esoteric', atau 'internal' alchemy.
Early alchemists, such as Zosimos of Panopolis, highlight the spiritual nature of the alchemical quest, symbolic of a religious regeneration of the human soul. This approach continued in the Middle Ages, as metaphysical aspects, substances, physical states, and material processes were used as metaphors...

Homunculus (Latin for "Little Human", plural Homunculi) refers to the mythological concept of an artificially created human, presumably brought into existence sejak way of alchemy. Though a common concept, well known and understood sejak alchemists in Amestris, the idea of homunculi is regarded as no lebih than a farce atau faraway Fantasi as no individual atau group of alchemists has come anywhere close to successfully creating such a being in officially recorded history. Even so, alchemists have been forbidden sejak the Amestrian government to attempt atau research in the transmutation of humans and State...

~story as told sejak Joss
our whole story starts...so long ago. actually...i intend 2 tell it in 4 parts. this is part 1...it's sorda a prolog 2 the big middle but just as needed 4 our story 2 make any sense at all. i suppose u could say we weren't born 0on this side of the gate...we're not from this world, we were born of another. every coin has 2 sides...and every awan can b dark and gray. we came from the place where the energy 4 the alchemy we use here comes from.
let's start from the beginning, shall we? such an odd...odd story...and most of anda won't believe it. but 2 those few who will,...

I know anda won't let go of me
You're my greatest faceless enemy
Though all anda do is hurt me
I guess misery loves company...
And anda won't let me leave anda lonely....
Though sometimes anda speak so soothingly....
I almost don't want anda to leave me....
I'll suffer so very slowly....
Because anda know just what to say to me.....
To keep me here, knowingly.
Because this is just the way it must be.

I have no choice
Because your voice...
It keeps me here...
So I can not fear.
The most difficult thing...
Is the ring ring in my ear...
Telling me to let go
That I don't belong here...
But I feel instantly drawn
To the bloody...

“u think u give very good advice...” I say evenly, bouncing gracefully away from is sword. “but then y don't u follow it?”
“what do u mean?!” he growls, pissed tht he can't seem 2 even scratch me.
“well, I suppose the biggest example is how u say u hate humans yet u wish u were 1...” I reply simply. “and how u say so many other things tht u ignore l8er....”
“U'R RLLY PISSING ME OFF!!!” he snaps, slashing faster and hitting my automail arm right where it ends. He was about a half inch from cutting through me.
“oh, so close.” I whisper, the thin layer of skin healing quickly....

As u can imagine the written test was the easy part...what's left is 4 me 2 win over the interviewer...
the najis with 3 legs....which 4 some reason is suppose 2 b unstable here...even tho any mathematician on the other side will tell u the exact opposite....so weird...4 legs actually makes chairs wobblier...i walk in2 the room, un-afraid and slightly over-confident.
“come...sit down.” the interviewer says...i don't kno the voice nor am I ever telah diberi a name. “good evening. How's it going?”
“well it's goin'...and good evening 2 u as well, sir.” I try 2 cover my sarcastic blunder with...

“hey Joss!” Ed and Al run up “OMMIGOD, IT'S ENVY!!!””
“what....?” I look at them.
“James.” James looks at Ed. “and just what is wrong with me being here?”
“we thought u were...” Al starts.
“Dead?” I look at him.
“yeah.” Ed growls and glares at him, clearly pissed.
“oh, I've made it angry with my presence....” James glares right bak. “just imagine how angry he'd b if he knew all the other humunculii he supposedly killed were all alive 2.” he says mockingly.
“wh-wh-what...?” he gets bug-eyed.
“all thanks 2 a certain kind-hearted girl who saved us.”
“well....it...

“U WON'T KEEP ME IN HERE LONG!!” Bradley yells.
“shut up.” I growl, clapping my hands and touching the metal ball, making it extra thick and making the inside melt, covering him with molten metal and making him scream.
“What'd do 2 'im?” James asks as we leave.
“melted the inner layer of steal and covered him with it so now he's basicly encased in a steal statue...”
“how'd u do tht without fire...?”
“all u have 2 do 2 make metal melt is excite the particles 2 a point where they separate from each other enough tht it becomes a liquid. Most use api, kebakaran 2 do tht but a skilled alchemist...

He lands with a thud on the concrete and skids 2 a halt just b4 he hits a wall. “aw...so close...” I mutter. “but I suppose I get skid points....” I sigh. James laughs slightly.
“skid points, hu?”
“the distance from where he landed 2 where he ended up.” I say simply.
“but he bounced a bit...”
“good, tht's bonus points.” I grin as Bradley gets up.
“stop talking about me like i'm not here...” he growls, recovering quickly. Above us r the sounds of riots and shooting....many small fights going on at once, the 95% tht want a new ruler facing the small final part tht think...

“u've been taught tht the truth is ez 2 hide.” I growl at Bradley as we fight. “just like a human...but the truth is ez 2 c if u look...”
“just like a human, u say? Y is THT!?” he attacks me with the sword and I fade 2 the left, easily avoiding him.
“simple.” I reply, ducking his sword with my hands casually behind my bak. “tell me Bradley, was there any point in time in ur life u actually told the truth?”
“y aren't u fighting bak?!” he snaps, thrusting is sword at me again and I leap over it and over him, landing on the other side of him.
“y r u avoiding the question,...

this is part 2 of our story, so after Membaca it u'll b about half way thro our basic life. I wanna start sejak saying we were BORN with all our memories from our past life but, being born a baby like every1 else, no way 2 convey them. Alas, no 1 in their right mind would believe us even if we could so we kept our mouth shut. We were born twins in Central, and were straight A students in the class-room...
but having 2 lives ment having 2 abusive families...at least 4 me. I donno if Cylon had 2 go thro that b4 atau not...our older brother was nice but clueless 2 it and our mother had 2 go thro it...

The demise of Western alchemy was brought about sejak the rise of modern science with its emphasis on rigorous quantitative experimentation and its disdain for "ancient wisdom". Although the seeds of these events were planted as early as the 17th century, alchemy still flourished for some two hundred years, and in fact may have reached its apogee in the 18th century. As late as 1781 James Price claimed to have produced a powder that could transmute mercury into silver atau gold.
Robert Boyle, better known for his studies of gases (cf. Boyle's law) pioneered the scientific method in chemical investigations....

Practical applications of alchemy produced a wide range of contributions to medicine and the physical sciences. Alchemists Jābir ibn Hayyān and Robert Boyle are both credited as being the fathers of chemistry. Paracelsian iatrochemistry emphasized the medicinal application of alchemy (continued in plant alchemy, atau spagyric). Studies of alchemy also influenced Isaac Newton's theory of gravity. Academic historical research supports that the alchemists were searching for a material substance using physical methods.
It is a popular belief that Alchemists made contributions to the "chemical" industries...

“y is it u feel the need 2 piss me off?” Bradley growls as he tries again 2 kill me and I nimbily avoid.
“well because I'm like u.” I reply, rolling under his seterusnya slash.
“how so?!” he replies, stabbing straight down at me.
“imma lowlife.” I say simply as I grab the sword with my automail arm and alih out of the way. The thin layer of skin cuts and heals over quickly when I let go. “tho in ur case ur livin' the highlife.”
“u think i'm a lowlife?!” he tries again 2 Slash me and this time I land on the sword with my automail leg and balance perfectly. He glares at me and moves...

~Told sejak Joss
“what way does a pokok fall?” I ask simply.
“what a stupid soalan from a stupid child. A pokok falls down.” Bradley scowls.
“wrong...” I say, looking at him.
“WRONG?!”
“a pokok falls the direction it leans.” I reply evenly, un-phased. “u should have been lebih careful...of the direction u chose...it's a simple matter. 1 hari u'll have 2 face the truth u've set 4 urself...the seeds u've planted will grow.” I turn and start 2 walk away, then turn bak and look at him. He seems befuddled. After all...we were just fighting. “will u b able 2 withstand the force they...

We'd been hiding under central 4 a long time....Dylon, Ed, Lenora, Ax, Lora, and Jacy had already joined us...when we heard a fight break out and just as suddenly as it started slow 2 a stop...i decided 2 b the 1 who went 2 check it out...but I stayed hidden 4 a while...watching thro a small hole I made in the wall....Edward, Scar, Roy, and Hawkeye were all staring at a small cicak, biawak thing...with purple eyes. It was crying and saying these things......tht sounded just like things I would say...i heard it call itself Envy and just b4 he could kill himself I shot out and grabbed him and left bak...

"Hmm...the law of Equivalent Exchange...if I want to be a good alchemist like Pop, then I'd better start reading..." a young boy sighs, "Let's see...in order to create, something of equal value must be lost...hmm...what does that mean...?" The young boy is Jason. His Father was a skilled Alchemist that loved learning and perfecting new styles of Alchemy in his younger days. He was killed in an accident caused sejak the Full-metal Alchemist. "I'll get him back for this...he won't live to see his killer...the Full-metal alchemist...he'll pay..." Jason growls. He then draws a small, but perfect,...