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| This entry is the conclusion of item 94 from the preceding page. [remains]; but is very brittle when poured out, also tints copper white, but brittle, for further reflection = = = | 10 | |
| 95. | A precious salt with which I once, in a small trial, transformed 1 part into 100 parts of copper into a living blue mercury original: "Mercurium." In this context, it likely refers to a liquid metal or a specific alchemical state of the copper., which could be boiled in aqua fortis original: "Scheidewasser," literally "parting water." Nitric acid used to separate silver from gold. for 3 hours and did not dissolve. = = = | 11 |
| 96. | To bring silver into a soft and fluid mass, like turpentine. = = = | 11 |
| 97. | To make common mercury or quicksilver into an oil. = = = | 11 |
| 98. | To prepare arsenic so that it opens up original: "aufschliesset." To make a substance soluble or chemically reactive. metals and minerals in the fire = = = = = | 11 |
| 99. | To distill the red oil from lead | 11 |
| 100. | To prepare a living mercury from common salt original: "Sale communi" (Latin). = = = | 12 |
| 101. | Regarding a running mercury or quicksilver that I obtained through extraction from antimony = = = | 12 |
| 102. | To prepare a white fixed salt from vitriol A historical term for sulfate minerals. which looks like feather alum original: "Alumen plumosum" (Latin). A fibrous mineral, often halotrichite or a form of asbestos., and from this again to make a red oil = = = | 12 |
| 103. | To manufacture the highly praised flowers of zinc original: "Flores Zinci" (Latin). Zinc oxide, produced by burning zinc in air; used in medicine and pigments. = = = = | 13 |
| 104. | Two incombustible lights by the Lord Abbot Trithemius of Sponheim Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516), a Benedictine abbot famous for his works on cryptography, history, and the occult. = = | 13 |
| 105. | The second incombustible light = = | 13 |
A decorative printer's mark or tailpiece composed of six small floral stamps arranged in a downward-pointing triangle pattern (three on top, then two, then one).