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  2. List of alchemical substances - Wikipedia

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    Rouge/ crocus / colcothar – ferric oxide, formed by burning green vitriol in air. Stibnite – antimony or antimony trisulfide, ore of antimony. Turpeth mineral – hydrolysed form of mercury (II) sulfate. Verdigris – Carbonate of Copper or (more recently) copper (II) acetate. The carbonate is formed by weathering copper.

  3. Phlogiston theory - Wikipedia

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    The alchemist and physician J. J. Becher proposed the phlogiston theory. The phlogiston theory, a superseded scientific theory, postulated the existence of a fire-like element dubbed phlogiston ( / flɒˈdʒɪstən, floʊ -, - ɒn /) [ 1][ 2] contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion. The name comes from the Ancient ...

  4. Alchemical symbol - Wikipedia

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    Alchemical symbols were used to denote chemical elements and compounds, as well as alchemical apparatus and processes, until the 18th century. Although notation was partly standardized, style and symbol varied between alchemists. Lüdy-Tenger [1] published an inventory of 3,695 symbols and variants, and that was not exhaustive, omitting for ...

  5. Fullmetal Alchemist - Wikipedia

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    Fullmetal Alchemist takes place in the fictional country of Amestris (アメストリス, Amesutorisu). In this world, alchemy is one of the most-practiced sciences; alchemists who work for the government are known as State Alchemists (国家錬金術師, Kokka Renkinjutsushi) and are automatically given the rank of major in the military.

  6. Sand bath - Wikipedia

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    A sand bath is a common piece of laboratory equipment made from a container filled with heated sand. It is used to evenly heat another container, most often during a chemical reaction . A sand bath is most commonly used in conjunction with a hot plate or heating mantle. A beaker is filled with sand or metal pellets (called shot) and is placed ...

  7. Prima materia - Wikipedia

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    In alchemy and philosophy, prima materia, materia prima or first matter (for a philosophical exposition refer to: Prime Matter ), is the ubiquitous starting material required for the alchemical magnum opus and the creation of the philosopher's stone. It is the primitive formless base of all matter similar to chaos, the quintessence or aether.

  8. Homunculus - Wikipedia

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    The homunculus is commonly used today in scientific disciplines such as psychology as a teaching or memory tool to describe the distorted scale model of a human drawn or sculpted to reflect the relative space human body parts occupy on the somatosensory cortex (the sensory homunculus) and the motor cortex (the motor homunculus ).

  9. Infinite Craft - Wikipedia

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    Android: May 21, 2024. Genre (s) Sandbox. Mode (s) Single-player. Infinite Craft is a 2024 sandbox game for browsers and mobile devices developed by Neal Agarwal in which players combine interactive elements to form others. [ 1][ 2] The game uses the Llama 2 large language model to create possible elements, making the gameplay seemingly infinite.