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    This document defines several technical terms used in alchemy and early chemistry, including: - Salt: A substance prepared from plant material thought to contain the essence of the herb. - Flowers: Crystalline structures resembling flowers produced during the sublimation of certain substances, such as sulfur. - Gas: Non-coagulable spirits or vapors, as defined by Van Helmont. Specific gases mentioned include sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide. - Several other substances are defined, such as glaure, humor, jove/jupiter, lili, and litharge, which refer to components in alchemical processes or preparations.

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    This document defines several technical terms used in alchemy and early chemistry, including: - Salt: A substance prepared from plant material thought to contain the essence of the herb. - Flowers: Crystalline structures resembling flowers produced during the sublimation of certain substances, such as sulfur. - Gas: Non-coagulable spirits or vapors, as defined by Van Helmont. Specific gases mentioned include sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide. - Several other substances are defined, such as glaure, humor, jove/jupiter, lili, and litharge, which refer to components in alchemical processes or preparations.

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    This document defines several technical terms used in alchemy and early chemistry, including: - Salt: A substance prepared from plant material thought to contain the essence of the herb. - Flowers: Crystalline structures resembling flowers produced during the sublimation of certain substances, such as sulfur. - Gas: Non-coagulable spirits or vapors, as defined by Van Helmont. Specific gases mentioned include sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide. - Several other substances are defined, such as glaure, humor, jove/jupiter, lili, and litharge, which refer to components in alchemical processes or preparations.

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    Alchem Book

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    A salt, named by analogy with essential oil, prepared from plant material; it was

    supposed to contain the crasis of the herb.

    Literally, "exhaustion"; a Helmontian term referring to the loss of corrosivity that acids
    suffer as they act on other substances.

    Feces
    Residues, either from distillation (e.g., caput mortuum), solution, sublimation, or other
    purification processes.

    Flowers
    A sublimate; the term arises from the radiate crystals resembling flowers that are often
    produced during the sublimation of certain substances. The term "flowers of sulfur" is
    still used occasionally today to refer to sulfur purified by sublimation.

    Gas
    A Helmontian term, defined at the start of his Opuscula medica inaudita as "a
    noncoagulable spirit, such as is belched out from fermenting wine, or likewise that red
    substance produced when aqua fortis is acting."
    Gas sulphuris
    The Gas produced by burning sulfur; in modern terms, sulfur dioxide.

    Gas sylvestris
    The Gas produced by burning charcoal; in modern terms, carbon dioxide.

    Glaure, or glaure Augurelli


    A substance mentioned by Giovanni Aurelio Augurello in his 1515 poem Chrysopoeia.
    Van Helmont mentions it and notes that "this nymph lacks a proper name up to this day"
    ("Glaure Augurelli, quae Nympha alio nomine proprio caret hactenus"; Ortus
    medicinae,1648, "In verbis, herbis et lapidibus est magna virtus," 577). Indeed, its
    identity is uncertain, although it has been variously identified as a component of gold, as
    bismuth, and as other substances.
    Humor
    A liquid.

    Jove or Jupiter
    Tin.

    Lili
    A Paracelsian remedy containing antimony, praised by Van Helmont (Ortus
    medicinae, 1648 "Arcana Paracelsi," 790).
    Litharge
    Calx of lead, or yellow lead oxide, prepared by roasting lead.

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