Which of these is NOT true about the early Arab practice of alchemy?
a. Alchemists were looking for the secrets of eternal life and how to turn inexpensive materials into gold.
b. Alchemists were early experimental scientists and observers.
c. Alchemy was pseudoscience, rather than involving any form of research.
d. Alchemists were important predecessors of modern chemists.
e. Alchemists studied materials and how they changed.
c
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