Day eighteen [Text]
Aqua Regia - "concentrated nitric acid + concentrated hydrochloric acid" - Dissolves gold and platinum
glass
beeswax
borax
burned alum
"decompose"
water
arsenic
lime
magnesium
steel
"sublimation"
sugar
sulfur - "omnipresent spirit of life"
autumn
cinnabar - (Mercury sulfide)
cribbled ashes
"ferment"
hematite
magnesium
mercury - "fluid connection between the High and the Low"
oil essence
"one dram"
potash
salt - "base matter"
silver
soapstone
"take"
wick
Gold - three references
Libra - "separation through sublimation"
-Sublimation - (chem)the change from solid to gas, while at no point becoming a liquid.
- (psy)the transformation of emotions.
--I've done what I can with this, Aziraphale. These are all the symbols I knew. I've read through all of these books twice and I still can't figure out exactly what it all means. From an alchemist's point of view this is just a jumbled mess of random symbols, some of them don't even look like any I'd seen back home.
I may want to check out the historical society. Might have more information than the library.
glass
beeswax
borax
burned alum
"decompose"
water
arsenic
lime
magnesium
steel
"sublimation"
sugar
sulfur - "omnipresent spirit of life"
autumn
cinnabar - (Mercury sulfide)
cribbled ashes
"ferment"
hematite
magnesium
mercury - "fluid connection between the High and the Low"
oil essence
"one dram"
potash
salt - "base matter"
silver
soapstone
"take"
wick
Gold - three references
Libra - "separation through sublimation"
-Sublimation - (chem)the change from solid to gas, while at no point becoming a liquid.
- (psy)the transformation of emotions.
--I've done what I can with this, Aziraphale. These are all the symbols I knew. I've read through all of these books twice and I still can't figure out exactly what it all means. From an alchemist's point of view this is just a jumbled mess of random symbols, some of them don't even look like any I'd seen back home.
I may want to check out the historical society. Might have more information than the library.