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    Can I use alchemy?
    DreaNA *
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    If you feel more comfortable and familiar with alchemy, then yes, you can use it.
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    If I need to trap a homunculus, should I use a large or small transmutation circle for the cage?
    Community Answer
    If you want to trap a normal-sized homunculus, the transmutation circle should be on the small side.
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    Is there a way to do alchemy, not the way Edward does?
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    Newton tried, and failed. Most consider it to be a pseudoscience, like phrenology. Learning Chemistry is the closest thing we have to it.
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    Can I draw a perfect transmutation circle without using a ruler or other tools like the manga/anime characters do?
    Community Answer
    Probably not, unless you have an extremely steady hand and practice doing it over many, many hours.
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    Can you actually use alchemy the way Edward does?
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    No. It's physically impossible to clap your hands and make a statue, and it's equally impossible to separate a transmutation circle and fix a broken pot.
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    Can I do a human transmutation like in Fullmetal Alchemist?
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    Fullmetal Alchemist is action fiction, not a treatise of occultism. Even if you do believe in alchemy, which is a matter of spiritual beliefs, you will not transmute things the way manga characters do.
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    How do you use the transmutation circle
    Community Answer
    In cosplay or decoration. This circle comes from a work of fiction, not from a real guide on alchemy.
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    Is there actually a use for this?
    Community Answer
    It serves as decoration for cosplay and looks cool if you hang it on a wall.
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    What does a transmutation circle do?
    Community Answer
    This transmutation circle, as much as it might be inspired by actual historical occultism sources, is fiction. It does nothing.
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    Could my transmutation circle actually do alchemy?
    Community Answer
    The idea of alchemy is pseudoscience, so unfortunately, you can't clap your hands together to turn that coin into gold.
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    Is there more than one circle?
    Thomas Hix
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    Yes! There are multiple circles or none at all! It all depends on the transmutation circle you want to make!
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    When it says in this article to "try it out", what does it mean? Do I draw the transmutation circle on a piece of paper and it will transform, like in Fullmetal Alchemist?
    Community Answer
    Unfortunately alchemy is purely fictional, so no. However, this can look really cool on cosplay or a wall!
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