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Khunrath's Ampitheatrum
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Lapis de Tribus
( Modified to eliminate Sulfur )
Orpiment / Ammonium Hydroxide / Nitric Acid / Heat >> Arsenic Trioxide / Pentoxide :
Crude Arsenic Pentoxide :
Antimony TriOxide ( Antimony / Nitric Acid ) :
Modified Lapis de Tribus, Step 2
RESULTS : Sintered, not fused... Requires higher temperature, sealed pressure vessel, &c.
Perhaps sulfur assists ingress into the silica while it is dissociated at these temperatures. Albertus Magnus prepared Sulfur TriOxide, calling it "Our Mercury".
LdT w/ Orpiment -- The tincted flask melted ; the Rx merely sintered :
NEXT : Made-it-Myself Crucible ( clay & ashes ); a section of repurposed 1970's Flanagan Pyramid Grid as the mold
References
Animated Alchemy GIFs
Abraham Eleazar : The Book of Abraham the Jew
Johannes Barchusen : Le Traite Symbolique de la Pierre Philosophale
Petrus Bonus : New Pearl of Great Price
Anonymous : Cabal Mineralis
Roger Caro : Concordances Alchemique
Anon. : The Crowning of Nature
George Aurach :Donum Dei
Nicholas Flamel : Hieroglyphics
St. Germaine : The Most Holy Trinosophia
Nicholas Delphinus : The Book of Lambspringk
Thomas Norton : Ordinall
George Ripley : Scroll
Arnold de Villanova : Rosarium
Secret of the Golden Flower
Splendor Solis
Basil Valentine : Triumphal Chariot of Antimony
Adam McLean's Alchemy Website
Rex Research Alchemy Archive
Hal Robins : Alchemia
