elemendiks
Elemendiks is a fictional or speculative term used in science fiction and philosophy to describe a process by which a substance or system is reduced to its elemental components or reframed as a state composed of elemental parts. In many treatments, elemendiks refers to a fundamental transformation that reveals or reconstructs the basic elements underlying matter, rather than simply altering macroscopic properties.
Elemendiks is a neologism formed from "element" with a suffix indicating a state or role and is
In fictional depictions, elemendiks may be achieved by a device, field, or process that disassembles a compound
Elemendiks is most common in speculative fiction, philosophical thought experiments, and interdisciplinary debates about reductionism. Critics
See also: Transmutation, Element, Decomposition, Reductionism, Emergence.