CHEMICAL DICTIONARY.

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Acalai is Salt.
Acartum is Red Lead original: Minium; a bright red pigment made from lead tetroxide.
Acaid is vinegar, or something acidic.
Achamech is the dross of silver original: superfluitas argenti; referring to the impurities or waste material separated from silver during refining.
Iron Acacia original: Acacia ferrea is an iron spoon.
Acazdir, Alkani, and Alomba are terms for Tin original: Stannum.
Accatum is Brass original: Aurichalcum; a golden-colored alloy of copper and zinc.
Agate original: Achates was first discovered in Sicily, near the river of the same name, and later in other places. They are beneficial against spider bites: And eagles place them in their nests to defend their chicks against venomous creatures; they also quench thirst and strengthen the eyesight.
In Agate various impressions appear: Forests, Rivers, Beasts of burden, and the tracks of a Wolf or Lion, so clearly engraved by nature as if a Gem-cutter had created them with focused effort, according to Pliny Pliny the Elder, Roman author of Natural History.
Diamond original: Adamas is born both outside of gold and within the most noble gold.
1. Outside of gold, the Indian variety is twofold, related in color to translucent Crystal, hexagonal on its sides, tapering at the point like a spinning top, or like two opposite parts joined together, the size of a hazelnut kernel.
2. Arabian, born outside of gold, is smaller than the preceding.

1. The size of a millet grain, which they call Centhron.
2. Macedonian, found in Philip's gold gold from the mines of Philip II of Macedon, equal in size to a cucumber seed.
3. Cyprian, found in Cyprus, leaning toward a copper color, and effective in medicinal Healings.
4. Sideritis, possessing an iron-like brilliance, surpassing the others in weight, but unlike them in nature: this one is broken by hammer blows, and can be pierced by another Diamond.