The mystery of Aqua Regia as a more effective gold dissolvent than the modern one. Perhaps because of the strange ancient work with salts.
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Lemery and the Fixed Salt of Tartar Called Oil by Deficiency
It is a very short and easy Lemery’s recipe that might be full of alchemical consequences. Raw Tartar of barrels, calcined at coal and deliquescent in a cellar. And rainwater.
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Often, when Saltpeter is involved, a Salamander is nearby. Here Lemery gives an insight into how to work what Fulcanelli called Stable Salt.
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Lemery presents the common salt Spirits preparation. Basilius Valentinus often recommends the common salt, defining it as a wonderful balsam to open matter.
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Nicolas Lemery’s way of preparing the spirit of salt armoniac sounds very similar to salt volatilization. Or at least it represents an interesting introduction.
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