Carlo Lancillotti prepares a volatile urine salt, distilling it on the Caput Mortuum, the part that doesn’t rise. So we see what a volatile salt is for.
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Glaser and the Unladylike, but Volatile, Salt of Urine
The volatile urine salt deserves all the attention Glaser assigns to it. Methods to extract it. It is then up to the alchemist to know what to do with it.
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Nicolas Lefevre proceedings to sublime and distill benzoin with Spirit of Wine and Tartar Salt. Dry balm, menstruum, perhaps magisterium. An interesting and easy substance.
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Benzoic Acid is not the Salt of Wises, as Phantom Plays seems to think, but let us point at this substance as one of the most volatile alchemists may avail. Since, together with Secret Fire, they do need to volatilize mineral salts unwilling to.
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Nicolas Lefevre and the Flos Coeli Medicine
Flos Coeli is latin for the flux of the sky. Unexpectedly Nicolas Lefevre makes this legendary substance from the middle of the earth to the surface.
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