Tauler taught Trismosin his alchemical secrets and Trismosin learned how to transmute mercury into gold. His alchemy can transmute elements through means unknown to modern science. Crusniks can transmute their blood into weapons and often possess psychokinetic powers. After two sequential beta decays, they transmute into fissile isotopes U-233 and Pu-239. The neutron radiation serves to transmute the surrounding matter, often rendering it radioactive. Shimmer is a metahuman with ability to transmute any element or compound into any other. To translate literally means to transmute the meaning from one language into another. Trom, he has the power to transmute chemical elements. He thus became the first person to deliberately transmute one element into another. The guard asks Laureline to get the Grumpy to transmute some Glods from Vlago-Vlago.