Essais chimiques d’eckartshausen

Other observations on the Metallic Dye

A color susceptible to dyeing must be soluble in water. A metallic dye suitable for tinting a metal must be soluble in this molten metal25.

The more soluble a body is, the more force it can transmit. The salts are the most soluble bodies; hence, they must be the most suitable bodies to serve as tinctures.

Salts are a land united to acids. If a substance of the fire combines with them, they will become dirty, oilseed.

The igneous substance makes metallic sulfur with the help of phosphoric acid. Hence it seems that the best metallic dye should be a salt carried in an oil.

The purest sulfur makes the purest metal; therefore, the tincture should contain the purest sulfur. But the purest sulfur is a real fire - a phosphorus -: So the real tincture must be all phosphoric, all fire.

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    the metallogenic Gur takes its strength from what is above (solar and cosmic radiation) as
    

of what is below (heat and telluric energy). At their junction point tends to form gold, a surface metal.

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    In principle, the role of heat, in the work as in spagyric operations, is to
    

bring solid bodies to a stage more permeable to the action of spirits, whether it is a question of fixing the volatile or, conversely, of volatilizing the fixed.

This fiery essence has the property of converting everything into its own nature; it must necessarily consist of parts having an analogy with all metals, for your metal parts are first of the same form, then receive a particular form.

This undifferentiated formation is purification, while formation in a definite aspect is assimilation or unification.

To supersaturate the metal with purified sulfur means to dye it, or if the operation is carried out gradually - to bring it to maturity. This maturation is the transmutation of the metal, and it happens as naturally as when vitriolic tartar is produced.

Thus, when saltpeter is placed in a cup which is placed on the fire and when vitriolic acid is mixed with it, the vitriolic acid drives out the nitric acid and unites with the alkali of the saltpetre; after washing the residue with water, tartarum vit riolatum is obtained.

Likewise, if the acidified metallic base is placed on the fire, the oxygen leaves the base while the substance of the fire unites, with a part of this base, with the metallic sulfur and forms a metal.

And, just as we cannot say of the first operation that we transformed the saltpeter into tartarum vitriolatuml, but that we dissociated it to collect it in a new salt, so we must not say of it. second operation which transmutes the metal, but dissociates its acidified metallic base and reduces it, by the addition of its sulfur, to another metallic base.