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AlChemy
Title: AlChemy
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 1369 | Pages: 5.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
AlChemy
The science by aid of which the chemical philosophers of medieval times attempted to transmute the baser metals
into gold or silver. There is considerable divergence of opinion as to the etymology of the word, but it would seem
to be derived from the Arabic al=the, and kimya=chemistry, which in turn derives from the late Greek
chemica=chemistry, from chumeia=a mingling, or cheein, ‘to pour out‘ or ‘mix’, Aryan root ghu, to …showed first 75 words of 1369 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1369 total…kind for the space of a philosophical year. There is dissolution which prepares the way for
congelation, and which is performed during the black state of the mysterious matter. It is accomplished by water
which does not wet the hand. There is the separation of the subtle and the gross, which is to be performed by
means of heat. In the conjunction which follows, the elements are duly and scrupulously combined. Putrefaction
afterwards takes place.
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