Answer to Fairday's Riddle: Alchemizing Matters

"Sorceress Purpura's Spell" acrylic painting by Jess Haight

Excellent guessing, Riddlers! Of course, the craft of alchemy is to insight change. Faster or slower the spin, transformative powers set in. Symbolic lines become this or that, take them or leave them, that's when it's at. Change is inevitable, knowing this is eternal. ~F

I am a catalyst for change; rotate, splice, rearrange; boil, freeze, snuff it out; churn, burn, satisfy doubt. This is that, now that is this; sometimes hit, sometimes miss. Ions bond, gaseous vapors, metals melt, you'll formulate papers. Transformation is the key; matters not what it be. Inner outer particle waves gain or lose elementary raves. 

What am I? Alchemy 

"Gold" Microscopic Modern Art