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Question
Give reasons for the following
Alchemy was considered a pseudoscience.
Solution
Towards the end of the 17th Century the scientific processes involving modem Chemistry started paving paths and Alchemy today is considered pseudoscience and Chemistry regain its rightful position as a serious scientific field.
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