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	[remains]; but is very brittle when poured; it also colors copper white, but [makes it] brittle; for further reflection	= = = 109
95.	A precious salt with which I once, in a small trial, transformed 1 part, added to 100 parts of copper, into living blue mercury original: "lebendigen blauen Mercurium." In alchemy, "living" or "quick" often refers to a substance that has been "animated" or purified into its essential metallic form., which allowed itself to be boiled for 3 hours in parting water parting water original: "Scheidewasser." This is nitric acid, a potent acid used by goldsmiths and alchemists to "part" or separate silver from gold. and did not dissolve.	= = 111
96.	To bring silver into a soft and fluid mass, like turpentine.	= = 111
97.	To turn common mercury or quicksilver into an oil original: "Oleo." Alchemical "oils" were concentrated, often acidic or caustic liquids derived from minerals..	= = 111
98.	To prepare arsenic original: "Arsenicum." so that it unlocks original: "auffschliesset." A term meaning to break down a substance's "body" to make its internal properties accessible for further reaction. metals and minerals in the fire.	= = = = 111
99.	To distill red oil from lead.	111
100.	To prepare a living mercury from common salt original: "Sale communi.".	= = = 112
101.	Concerning a running mercury or quicksilver that I obtained through extraction from antimony original: "Antimonio." Antimony was a favorite subject of alchemical study for its ability to purify gold..	= = = 112
102.	To prepare a white fixed salt from vitriol original: "Vitriol," a sulfate mineral. that looks like feathered alum original: "Alumen plumosum." This term was used for fibrous minerals like asbestos or certain sulfate formations that look like white feathers., and from this to make a red oil again.	= = = = 112
103.	To manufacture the so highly praised Flowers of Zinc original: "Flores Zinci." These are the white flakes of zinc oxide produced by burning zinc in air; they were highly valued for medicinal and artistic use..	= = = = 112
104.	Two incombustible lights original: "unverbrennliche Lichter." Also known as "ever-burning lamps," these were legendary devices sought by alchemists that were said to burn for centuries without consuming their wick or fuel. by the Lord Abbot Trithemius of Sponheim Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516), a famous German abbot, polymath, and occultist..	= = 112
105.	The other incombustible light.	= 113

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