This is Keltham!  He seems like a pretty extreme mad-experimenter alchemist apprentice, the sort who's obviously going to end up dead within weeks if not days.  He's not just slightly 'off', everything about is way off in more directions than you can easily count.

Today's frontier of research is a spectroscope, which burns matter and uses a prism to refract the light into component colors, or shines light through the burning material in order to check for absorption lines within the colors.

Why is that important?  Well, light is made of particles called photons, the color corresponds to the energy of the photons, and the emission-absorption lines correspond to increases or decreases in energy of the 'electrons' that are constituents of the 'atoms' that are the almost-perfectly-stable constituents of matter.  The electron orbitals are a huge determinant of how matter behaves chemically, how it gets transformed by acid or what other atoms it combines with into semi-stable molecules.

Part of their major project here is to see whether knowing, understanding use of Prestidigitation can greatly change the reach of what's possible in chemistry.  Prestidigitation can change color, stickiness, taste; these are all things that plausibly depend on electron orbitals.  They've already verified that Prestidigitation can change the reaction rate between acidic vinegar and basic wood-ash lye.  Lady Avaricia was first other than Keltham to Prestidigitate matter such that it would then burn with a different color of flame; Korva Tallandria managed to get her bits of chalk to not only burn with the color of sulfur but to smell something like sulfur and to produce coughing like sulfur dioxide.

Keltham is hoping that by using a spectroscope on Prestidigitated matter, his researchers will be able to get direct feedback on how their Prestidigitation is changing the behavior of electron orbitals.  That seems like it could be one of the key steps in learning to make elements behave like other elements that Keltham doesn't have time to identify in known Golarion materials, or even behave like elements that can't exist as ordinary matter.  It will enable them to regularize the transformations that Prestidigitation applies to materials, even if two different researchers think copper tastes slightly different to them.

Keltham is mentioning all this, of course, because he's sure that the alchemist is wondering why, if you can use Prestidigitation to control chemistry that easily, nobody's ever done it before.  They've had some indication that you may need to know something about electron orbitals, before people seem to be able to conceive in the right way about which transformation they want to apply, by controlling the taste of something, that would also make it burn a different color - his researchers weren't able to do that right away, as of yesterday, some researchers still couldn't.  But also, Keltham is guessing that it's not reliable or is hard to control if you try to Prestidigitate matter to behave different chemically without getting interim feedback on the resulting effects of your magic by way of spectroscope.

Besides making distilled oil of vitriol and refining spellsilver, are there any other chemical transformations that would be hugely profitable to improve or that would be vital to the economy of Cheliax or other countries?

(Elapsed time before he learned knowledge that any government in Golarion would kill and soul-trap him over:  Three and a half minutes.)

This is Keltham!  He seems like a pretty extreme mad-experimenter alchemist apprentice, the sort who's obviously going to end up dead within weeks if not days.  He's not just slightly 'off', everything about is way off in more directions than you can easily count.

Today's frontier of research is a spectroscope, which burns matter and uses a prism to refract the light into component colors, or shines light through the burning material in order to check for absorption lines within the colors.

Why is that important?  Well, light is made of particles called photons, the color corresponds to the energy of the photons, and the emission-absorption lines correspond to increases or decreases in energy of the 'electrons' that are constituents of the 'atoms' that are the almost-perfectly-stable constituents of matter.  The electron orbitals are a huge determinant of how matter behaves chemically, how it gets transformed by acid or what other atoms it combines with into semi-stable molecules.

Part of their major project here is to see whether knowing, understanding use of Prestidigitation can greatly change the reach of what's possible in chemistry.  Prestidigitation can change color, stickiness, taste; these are all things that plausibly depend on electron orbitals.  They've already verified that Prestidigitation can change the reaction rate between acidic vinegar and basic wood-ash lye.  Lady Avaricia was first other than Keltham to Prestidigitate matter such that it would then burn with a different color of flame; Korva Tallandria managed to get her bits of chalk to not only burn with the color of sulfur but to smell something like sulfur and to produce coughing like sulfur dioxide.

Keltham is hoping that by using a spectroscope on Prestidigitated matter, his researchers will be able to get direct feedback on how their Prestidigitation is changing the behavior of electron orbitals.  That seems like it could be one of the key steps in learning to make elements behave like other elements that Keltham doesn't have time to identify in known Golarion materials, or even behave like elements that can't exist as ordinary matter.  It will enable them to regularize the transformations that Prestidigitation applies to materials, even if two different researchers think copper tastes slightly different to them.

Keltham is mentioning all this, of course, because he's sure that the alchemist is wondering why, if you can use Prestidigitation to control chemistry that easily, nobody's ever done it before.  They've had some indication that you may need to know something about electron orbitals, before people seem to be able to conceive in the right way about which transformation they want to apply, by controlling the taste of something, that would also make it burn a different color - his researchers weren't able to do that right away; as of yesterday, some researchers still couldn't.  But also, Keltham is guessing that it would be a great deal more difficult to map your way through Prestidigitating chemistry if you didn't understand the underlying atomic interactions, started out by trying to Prestidigitate complicated tastes into other complicated molecules instead of atomic tastes into atoms, and couldn't use a spectroscope to see what your early attempts at Prestidigitation chemistry were changing about the electron orbitals.

Besides making distilled oil of vitriol and refining spellsilver, are there any other chemical transformations that would be hugely profitable to improve or that would be vital to the economy of Cheliax or other countries?

(Elapsed time before he learned knowledge that any government in Golarion would kill and soul-trap him over:  Three and a half minutes.)

This is Keltham!  He seems like a pretty extreme mad-experimenter alchemist apprentice, the sort who's obviously going to end up dead within weeks if not days.  He's not just slightly 'off', everything about is way off in more directions than you can easily count.

Today's frontier of research is a spectroscope, which burns matter and uses a prism to refract the light into component colors, or shines light through the burning material in order to check for absorption lines within the colors.

Why is that important?  Well, light is made of particles called photons, the color corresponds to the energy of the photons, and the emission-absorption lines correspond to increases or decreases in energy of the 'electrons' that are constituents of the 'atoms' that are the almost-perfectly-stable constituents of matter.  The electron orbitals are a huge determinant of how matter behaves chemically, how it gets transformed by acid or what other atoms it combines with into semi-stable molecules.

Part of their major project here is to see whether knowing, understanding use of Prestidigitation can greatly change the reach of what's possible in chemistry.  Prestidigitation can change color, stickiness, taste; these are all things that plausibly depend on electron orbitals.  They've already verified that Prestidigitation can change the reaction rate between acidic vinegar and basic wood-ash lye.  Lady Avaricia was first other than Keltham to Prestidigitate matter such that it would then burn with a different color of flame; Korva Tallandria managed to get her bits of chalk to not only burn with the color of sulfur but to smell something like sulfur and to produce coughing like sulfur dioxide.

Keltham is hoping that by using a spectroscope on Prestidigitated matter, his researchers will be able to get direct feedback on how their Prestidigitation is changing the behavior of electron orbitals.  That seems like it could be one of the key steps in learning to make elements behave like other elements that Keltham doesn't have time to identify in known Golarion materials, or even behave like elements that can't exist as ordinary matter.  It will enable them to regularize the transformations that Prestidigitation applies to materials, even if two different researchers think copper tastes slightly different to them.

Keltham is mentioning all this, of course, because he's sure that the alchemist is wondering why, if you can use Prestidigitation to control chemistry that easily, nobody's ever done it before.  They've had some indication that you may need to know something about electron orbitals, before people seem to be able to conceive in the right way about which transformation they want to apply, by controlling the taste of something, that would also make it burn a different color - his researchers weren't able to do that right away; as of yesterday, some researchers still couldn't.  But also, Keltham is guessing that it would be a great deal more difficult to map your way through Prestidigitating chemistry if you didn't understand the underlying atomic interactions, started out by trying to Prestidigitate complicated tastes into other complicated molecules instead of atomic tastes into atoms, and couldn't use a spectroscope to see what your early attempts at Prestidigitation chemistry were changing about the electron orbitals.

Besides making distilled oil of vitriol and refining spellsilver, are there any other non-magical chemical transformations that would be hugely profitable to improve or that would be vital to the economy of Cheliax or other countries?

(Elapsed time before he learned knowledge that any government in Golarion would kill and soul-trap him over:  Three and a half minutes.)

This is Keltham!  He seems like a pretty extreme mad-experimenter alchemist apprentice, the sort who's obviously going to end up dead within weeks if not days.  He's not just slightly 'off', everything about him is way off in more directions than you can easily count.

Today's frontier of research is a spectroscope, which burns matter and uses a prism to refract the light into component colors, or shines light through the burning material in order to check for absorption lines within the colors.

Why is that important?  Well, light is made of particles called photons, the color corresponds to the energy of the photons, and the emission-absorption lines correspond to increases or decreases in energy of the 'electrons' that are constituents of the 'atoms' that are the almost-perfectly-stable constituents of matter.  The electron orbitals are a huge determinant of how matter behaves chemically, how it gets transformed by acid or what other atoms it combines with into semi-stable molecules.

Part of their major project here is to see whether knowing, understanding use of Prestidigitation can greatly change the reach of what's possible in chemistry.  Prestidigitation can change color, stickiness, taste; these are all things that plausibly depend on electron orbitals.  They've already verified that Prestidigitation can change the reaction rate between acidic vinegar and basic wood-ash lye.  Lady Avaricia was first other than Keltham to Prestidigitate matter such that it would then burn with a different color of flame; Korva Tallandria managed to get her bits of chalk to not only burn with the color of sulfur but to smell something like sulfur and to produce coughing like sulfur dioxide.

Keltham is hoping that by using a spectroscope on Prestidigitated matter, his researchers will be able to get direct feedback on how their Prestidigitation is changing the behavior of electron orbitals.  That seems like it could be one of the key steps in learning to make elements behave like other elements that Keltham doesn't have time to identify in known Golarion materials, or even behave like elements that can't exist as ordinary matter.  It will enable them to regularize the transformations that Prestidigitation applies to materials, even if two different researchers think copper tastes slightly different to them.

Keltham is mentioning all this, of course, because he's sure that the alchemist is wondering why, if you can use Prestidigitation to control chemistry that easily, nobody's ever done it before.  They've had some indication that you may need to know something about electron orbitals, before people seem to be able to conceive in the right way about which transformation they want to apply, by controlling the taste of something, that would also make it burn a different color - his researchers weren't able to do that right away; as of yesterday, some researchers still couldn't.  But also, Keltham is guessing that it would be a great deal more difficult to map your way through Prestidigitating chemistry if you didn't understand the underlying atomic interactions, started out by trying to Prestidigitate complicated tastes into other complicated molecules instead of atomic tastes into atoms, and couldn't use a spectroscope to see what your early attempts at Prestidigitation chemistry were changing about the electron orbitals.

Besides making distilled oil of vitriol and refining spellsilver, are there any other non-magical chemical transformations that would be hugely profitable to improve or that would be vital to the economy of Cheliax or other countries?

(Elapsed time before he learned knowledge that any government in Golarion would kill and soul-trap him over:  Three and a half minutes.)

This is Keltham!  He seems like a pretty extreme mad-experimenter alchemist apprentice, the sort who's obviously going to end up dead within weeks if not days.  He's not just slightly 'off', everything about him is way off in more directions than you can easily count.

Today's frontier of research is a spectroscope, which burns matter and uses a prism to refract the light into component colors, or shines light through the burning material in order to check for absorption lines within the colors.

Why is that important?  Well, light is made of particles called photons, the color corresponds to the energy of the photons, and the emission-absorption lines correspond to increases or decreases in energy of the 'electrons' that are constituents of the 'atoms' that are the almost-perfectly-stable constituents of matter.  The electron orbitals are a huge determinant of how matter behaves chemically, how it gets transformed by acid or what other atoms it combines with into semi-stable molecules.

Part of their major project here is to see whether informed use of Prestidigitation can greatly change the reach of what's possible in chemistry.  Prestidigitation can change color, stickiness, taste; these are all things that plausibly depend on electron orbitals.  They've already verified that Prestidigitation can change the reaction rate between acidic vinegar and basic wood-ash lye.  Lady Avaricia was first other than Keltham to Prestidigitate matter such that it would then burn with a different color of flame; Korva Tallandria managed to get her bits of chalk to not only burn with the color of sulfur but to smell something like sulfur and to produce coughing like sulfur dioxide.

Keltham is hoping that by using a spectroscope on Prestidigitated matter, his researchers will be able to get direct feedback on how their Prestidigitation is changing the behavior of electron orbitals.  That seems like it could be one of the key steps in learning to make elements behave like other elements that Keltham doesn't have time to identify in known Golarion materials, or even behave like elements that can't exist as ordinary matter.  It will enable them to regularize the transformations that Prestidigitation applies to materials, even if two different researchers think copper tastes slightly different to them.

Keltham is mentioning all this, of course, because he's sure that the alchemist is wondering why, if you can use Prestidigitation to control chemistry that easily, nobody's ever done it before.  They've had some indication that you may need to know something about electron orbitals, before people seem to be able to conceive in the right way about which transformation they want to apply, by controlling the taste of something, that would also make it burn a different color - his researchers weren't able to do that right away; as of yesterday, some researchers still couldn't.  But also, Keltham is guessing that it would be a great deal more difficult to map your way through Prestidigitating chemistry if you didn't understand the underlying atomic interactions, started out by trying to Prestidigitate complicated tastes into other complicated molecules instead of atomic tastes into atoms, and couldn't use a spectroscope to see what your early attempts at Prestidigitation chemistry were changing about the electron orbitals.

Besides making distilled oil of vitriol and refining spellsilver, are there any other non-magical chemical transformations that would be hugely profitable to improve or that would be vital to the economy of Cheliax or other countries?

(Elapsed time before he learned knowledge that any government in Golarion would kill and soul-trap him over:  Three and a half minutes.)

This is Keltham!  He seems like a pretty extreme mad-experimenter alchemist apprentice, the sort who's obviously going to end up dead within weeks if not days.  He's not just slightly 'off', everything about him is way off in more directions than you can easily count.

Today's frontier of research is a spectroscope, which burns matter and uses a prism to refract the light into component colors, or shines light through the burning material in order to check for absorption lines within the colors.

Why is that important?  Well, light is made of particles called photons, the color corresponds to the energy of the photons, and the emission-absorption lines correspond to increases or decreases in energy of the 'electrons' that are constituents of the 'atoms' that are the almost-perfectly-stable constituents of matter.  The electron orbitals are a huge determinant of how matter behaves chemically, how it gets transformed by acid or what other atoms it combines with into semi-stable molecules.

Part of their major project here is to see whether informed use of Prestidigitation can greatly change the reach of what's possible in chemistry.  Prestidigitation can change color, stickiness, taste; these are all things that plausibly depend on electron orbitals.  They've already verified that Prestidigitation can change the reaction rate between acidic vinegar and basic wood-ash lye.  Lady Avaricia was first other than Keltham to Prestidigitate matter such that it would then burn with a different color of flame; Korva Tallandria managed to get matter to not only burn with the color of sulfur but to smell something like sulfur and to produce coughing like sulfur dioxide.

Keltham is hoping that by using a spectroscope on Prestidigitated matter, his researchers will be able to get direct feedback on how their Prestidigitation is changing the behavior of electron orbitals.  That seems like it could be one of the key steps in learning to make elements behave like other elements that Keltham doesn't have time to identify in known Golarion materials, or even behave like elements that can't exist as ordinary matter.  It will enable them to regularize the transformations that Prestidigitation applies to materials, even if two different researchers think copper tastes slightly different to them.

Keltham is mentioning all this, of course, because he's sure that the alchemist is wondering why, if you can use Prestidigitation to control chemistry that easily, nobody's ever done it before.  They've had some indication that you may need to know something about electron orbitals, before people seem to be able to conceive in the right way about which transformation they want to apply, by controlling the taste of something, that would also make it burn a different color - his researchers weren't able to do that right away; as of yesterday, some researchers still couldn't.  But also, Keltham is guessing that it would be a great deal more difficult to map your way through Prestidigitating chemistry if you didn't understand the underlying atomic interactions, started out by trying to Prestidigitate complicated tastes into other complicated molecules instead of atomic tastes into atoms, and couldn't use a spectroscope to see what your early attempts at Prestidigitation chemistry were changing about the electron orbitals.

Besides making distilled oil of vitriol and refining spellsilver, are there any other non-magical chemical transformations that would be hugely profitable to improve or that would be vital to the economy of Cheliax or other countries?

(Elapsed time before he learned knowledge that any government in Golarion would kill and soul-trap him over:  Three and a half minutes.)