Essais chimiques d’eckartshausen

Practical Recipe

for the dissolution of Metals
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When I had, by an incessant reading and study of the oldest as well as of the new chemists, by a constant comparison of the old and the new experiments, recognized the nature of metals, I began to unite the experiments with the reasoning; the results of my work are as follows

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The art of transforming metals can only be rationally accomplished under three conditions:

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   It is necessary to know the internal base of the metal and its components.
   
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   You have to know how to separate these components.
   
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   We must then be able to bring them together.
   

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Metallity is nothing other than the fixation of light and fire. All metals are coagulated phosphorus, and gold ranks first. The sun can be thought of as blazing phosphorus, and gold as concentrated phosphorus.

The sun consists of luminous and igneous substance.

As the luminous and igneous substance expands in the sun, it is condensed in gold.

The difference in the proportions between the luminous and igneous substance makes the diversity of metals.

EXPERIENCE

We take a piece of phosphorus, leave it in the water so that it does not ignite and we melt it over a low flame, in a porcelain dish.

When the phosphorus has become liquid, finely crushed Cyprus Vitriol28 is mixed with it; The phosphorus immediately unites with it and the result is phosphorus copper (Phosphorku-pfer).

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    Copper sulphate, chemists' phosphorus (once is not customary). Water, on the other hand, is our hyleac containing the three principles in a potential state.
    

Dry this copper, place it on the fire, it will ignite and be completely destroyed. But if you put it in the water, it will gradually blacken; carbonic substance will be produced, while the luminous matter will pass through the water in soapy form.

From this copper, therefore, are obtained the igneous or carbonic substance, the luminous or soapy substance, and the phosphoric acid.

With this, one can get to know all the metallity which consists in the combination of the igneous substance with the luminous substance, by means of the acid of phosphorus.

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In phosphoric acid are found the three principles of metals: Sulfur, Mercury and Salt of the Sages.

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Phosphoric acid appears where the pure substance of charcoal, dilated, unites with vital air

(Lebensluft).
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Phosphoric acid contains the carbonic substance (Kohlenstoff), in other words Sulfur; the acidic substance, which is Mercury or vital Air (carbonic substance in a fluid state); finally, the luminous substance, this is Salt.

The Sulfur of metals (Metallschwefel) is the true Phosphorus; the Mercury of metals is the true phosphoric acid, and the metallic salts form phosphoric acid, when they combine with metallic earth.
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The properties of metallic earths are to be talc-like and coloring The talc-like earth is astringent and contains the volatility of phosphorus, so that it unites with metallic earth to form a metal.

The coloring earth has in itself the coloring principle29.

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    The theoretical and practical importance of this chapter is considerable. The equivalences posed must be fully grasped, if we want to penetrate what may remain obscure in this work. If I read correctly myself, metals are made up of bonded elements and binding elements. The related ones are sulfur: carbonic and igneous substance; mercury: caloric substance, acid or vital air; Salt: luminous substance. This salt principle, in the author's own terminology, is not, in its root, the principle of corporizations, nor the result of the union of sulfur and mercury, but it allows this union, having left their common androgynous source. I believe I have noted that it should not be confused with the salt of wisdom, a laboratory reality and not a cosmic principle. The binders are: talciform earth (metallic base), coloring earths "having in itself its coloring principle": the "dye", because it is the receptacle or binder of sulfur, the talc-like earth being that of mercury, everything will emerge from the terra virginea. Metalloids would be unthinkable if they were completely devoid of the same three principles. Theoretically, we could go from metalloids to metals; in practice, this work would be enormously long and difficult. Like metals, metalloids tend towards a still perfect, completed body, equivalent to gold in the metallic series. And this body is if I am not mistaken, the suffering of our secular chemistry. the talc-like earth being that of mercury, everything will come out of the terra virginea. Metalloids would be unthinkable if they were completely devoid of the same three principles. Theoretically, we could go from metalloids to metals; in practice, this work would be enormously long and difficult. Like metals, metalloids tend towards a still perfect, completed body, equivalent to gold in the metallic series. And this body is if I am not mistaken, the suffering of our secular chemistry. the talc-like earth being that of mercury, everything will come out of the terra virginea. Metalloids would be unthinkable if they were completely devoid of the same three principles. Theoretically, we could go from metalloids to metals; in practice, this work would be enormously long and difficult. Like metals, metalloids tend towards a still perfect, completed body, equivalent to gold in the metallic series. And this body is if I am not mistaken, the suffering of our secular chemistry. the metalloids tend towards a still perfect, completed body, equivalent to gold in the metallic series. And this body is if I am not mistaken, the suffering of our secular chemistry. the metalloids tend towards a still perfect, completed body, equivalent to gold in the metallic series. And this body is if I am not mistaken, the suffering of our secular chemistry.