Scatter vs Transmute - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between scatter and transmute

is that scatter is (ergative) to (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse while transmute is .

transmuted.

(en verb)

(ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

the police scattered the crowds

the crowd scattered

* Shakespeare

Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.

To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.

Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.

* Dryden

Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?

(physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).

To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.

To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.

to scatter hopes or plans

* scatterbrain * scatterplot * scattershot

(transmut)

To change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.

The alchemists tried to transmute base metals to gold.

To change, transform or convert to another, or from one state or form to another.

Did the base metals transmute to gold?