Confession on the Universal Physico-Chemical Chaos

-ic Completing the word "embryonic" from the previous page., as is found in pure
alluvial gold, glass-ore original: "Glass." Likely referring to Glaserz or silver glance (argentite). and
ruby silver ore;
And by the artifice of fire original: "Ignis artificio"
is driven out, manifested, and
separated from them.) Or that
famous and long-celebrated
substance, which holds
countless people most miserably
fascinated (do I dare to name it?):
Mercury original: "Hydrargyron." From the Greek for "liquid silver." etc. (It is deceptive
enough original: "Arg gnug." A pun on "Argentum" (silver) while also meaning "wicked" or "cunning enough" to lead seekers into error. to attempt to prepare the
Stone of the Wise from it;
it truly possesses both the name and the omen) original: "nomen & omen habet, revera." A Latin idiom meaning the name reflects the reality of the thing—in this case, perhaps the volatile and "mercurial" nature of the pursuit. Vitriol, An-