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Adept Alchemy. Part I. Chapter 4. Oroborus - Levity  I have made the Experiment with my own hands; I have seen his Medicine under two forms. .... It is also said that copper is water of silver, which, after preparation, becomes eternal water. .... Sandaracha  Orpiment, Crystalline Arsenic, Yellow Orpiment. ..... Copper leaf, smeared with this haritalam, turns into fine gold.
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Orpiment and Realgar in Chinese Technology and Tradition - JStor  Orpiment (As,2S) is a beautiful yellow mineral, frequently .... ment was imported into China by sea-going ships. .... theless, Pliny tells that the Emperor Caligula had ... The Chinese alchemists, even before their Euro- ... was said to have orpiment in his mouth.54 Whether .... house with arsenic sulphide, whence it acquired the.
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Jeopary Questions page 1695 - FAMOUS AMERICANS - TriviaBistro ...  IN A NUTSHELL: These bright green nuts are said to have been a favorite of .... ordered his alchemists to turn the yellow orpiment, a sulfide of arsenic, into this...
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About "Alchemy" The Alchemist in Search of the Philosophers Stone  The Roman emperor Caligula is said to have instituted experiments for producing ... a sulfide of arsenic, and the emperor Diocletian is said to have ordered all Egyptian ... From the Arabs, alchemy generally found its way through Spain into Europe. ... Albertus Magnus had a great mastery of the practical chemistry of his time.
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alchemy - The Worlds of David Darling  Likewise, the alchemist toiled with his crucibles and elmbics, calcining, subliming, ... namely (1) the secret of transmuting the baser metals into gold and silver, and (2) ... The Roman emperor Caligula is said to have instituted experiments for producing gold out of orpiment (arsenic sulfide); and in the time of Diocletian, the...
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Phosphorus  Dec 17, 2002 ... Introduction; The Element Phosphorus; The Mineralogy and ... In 1669 the Hamburg merchant and alchemist Hennig Brandt heated the ... The discovery created quite a stir, and soon nobody was throwing away urine. ..... A white phosphorus--lead dioxide match would have been a remarkable poison.
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The Seven Operations of Alchemy - AzothAlchemy.org  Below the salamander is the inscription Anima (Soul); below the bird is the inscription ... Black crows are symbols of the initial Black Phase (the Nigredo) of alchemy, .... On the planetary level, Dissolution is the Great Flood, the cleansing of the .... The sign that Putrefaction is nearing its end is a milky white fluid that appears...
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Lilian and Julian  Universal Workshop  Jan 14, 2015 ... His adviser on the calendar was Sosigenes. ... experienced scientist who helped Caesar to bring the years back ... of the new calendar, which his brother Antonio presented to the pope ... Clavius was candid in giving all credit to Luigi Giglio. ... Then C. Julius Caesar made himself so powerful (by being in...
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Sulfur dictionary definition | sulfur defined  a pale-yellow, nonmetallic chemical element found in crystalline or amorphous ... odor and is used in vulcanizing rubber and in making matches, paper, gunpowder, ... It is used in black gunpowder, rubber vulcanization, the manufacture of...
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Alchemy in the Middle Ages - A Medieval Proto-Science  This included precious metals as well as elixirs to cure disease and prolong life. ... thus we have the clich of medieval alchemists seeking to "turn lead into gold.
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Articles about Arsenic And Old Lace by Date - Page 3 - tribunedigital ...  But when the hosts are two little old ladies who are fond of slipping arsenic into the ... of their unsuspecting guests-well, one has to confess certain reservations. ... On Tuesday, a touring production of the screwball 1941 comedy opens at the ... with those two dear, dotty old aunties who drop poison in their gentlemen callers`...
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Irregular Webcomic! #3239  Aug 5, 2012 ... He also escorted the souls of the newly deceased to the afterlife, leading them ... This name was later used by alchemists for the peculiar liquid metal which still bears ... There was another thing that the Romans named after gods. ... And so they named this planet after the messenger of the gods: Mercury.
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Lead Poisoning and Rome  ... a more probable cause of chronic lead poisoning (plumbism or "saturnism" because its .... Twenty years before, Gilfillan had insisted that "lead poisoning is to be ... is preserved, and sometimes both these afflictions attacking together" (III.64). ... of the metal than the huge oiled cauldron mentioned by Columella (XII.20.3),...
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A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Ehrlich finds cure for ...  Ehrlich was looking for a cure or treatment for "sleeping sickness," a disease caused by a ... well but was a fairly strong arsenic compound, and arsenic was poisonous. ... In 1910 the drug was released, called Salvarsan, or sometimes just 606.
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Arsenic Poisoning  people - as well as servants, some of his generals had chosen to go into exile with him. He ... Napoleon was initially buried on St Helena, but his body was later ... might have rested, except that a number of his staff had kept locks of ... of arsenic in her hair, which corresponded to the times that he had been home on leave.
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Free Flashcards about SCIENTISTS - StudyStack  IN THE 1780S GASPARD MONGE WAS THE FIRST TO DO THIS TO A SUBSTANCE THAT'S NORMALLY A GAS, SULFUR DIOXIDE, LIQUIFY IT.
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Mercury sulfide - Wikipedia  Mercury sulfide, mercuric sulfide, mercury sulphide, or mercury(II) sulfide is a chemical compound composed of the chemical elements mercury and sulfur. ... Mercury metal is produced from the cinnabar ore by roasting in air and condensing the vapour. .... By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
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arsenic facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ...  Arsenic was first recognized as an element by alchemists. Alchemy was a ... As. ATOMIC NUMBER 33. ATOMIC MASS 74.9216. FAMILY Group 15 (VA) Nitrogen .... The toxic properties of arsenic compounds made them useful as rat poison.
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jeopardy/1130_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  FRUITLESS SEARCHES | Bologna Stone, found in 1603, was thought to be this alchemical "stone" to change cheaper metals into gold | the philosopher's stone.
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Alchemy - The Washington Post  Mar 10, 1999 ... A gold bar is twice as heavy as the same-sized bar made of lead. ... In fact, until medieval alchemists concocted the acid known as aqua regia, gold was ... silver-colored, and sulfur, whose yellow hue seemed related to gold. ... be purified until it receives the sheen of gold and turns into the royal sun-metal.".
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier The Chemical Revolution - Landmark ...  He proposed that the phlogiston of the charcoal had united with the calx. ... Combustion, he said, was the reaction of a metal or an organic substance with ... In 1766, Englishman Henry Cavendish isolated a gas that he called "inflammable air" ... a compound of oxygen and inflammable air, or hydrogen as it is now known.