Alchemist and magic items

[Ismodai]

hi, i was just reading the thread about alchemist and crafting magic thingies and im not sure about if it is able to use wands or scrolls, as i believe (im at work so my search fu here is close to none) an alchemist can use a wand as long as the spell is on his list but he cant use scrolls because he does not have a caster lvl (besides using UMD)is this correct? or an alchemist can use a scroll as long as the spell is on his list and the scroll is arcane?

[spalding]

He can use spell trigger items, not spell completion items. Scrolls are spell completion items, wands are spell trigger items (as would be a staff).

[Ismodai]

so i could use any staff as long as i got any of the spells in it on my list?

[VRMH]

Ismodai wrote:

so i could use any staff as long as i got any of the spells in it on my list?

Yes. You couldn't recharge it though.

[Azurespark]

VRMH wrote:

Ismodai wrote:

so i could use any staff as long as i got any of the spells in it on my list?

Yes. You couldn't recharge it though.

Could you tell me where that is written? Because otherwise I would disagree with this. You recharge a staff by casting the spell on it right? So why couldn't you pour an extract of the spell onto the staff to recharge it?

[spalding]

Because an extract isn't a spell.