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Calcanthum
Salts solvents and liquid preparations · A Chymical Dictionary
At a Glance
The word. A historical term identified with vitriol.
A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 13; facsimile PDF page 341.
Historical Definition
Calcanthum is vitriol.
Meaning
The dictionary supplies a broad material name, not a single formula or preparation. Vitriol vocabulary elsewhere receives qualifiers and appears in products such as oils or salts. The reader should therefore retain any modifier attached to Calcanthum or its surrounding description.
Compare Attramentum, which includes copperas within a context-sensitive range, and Citrinulum, a salt made from calcined vitriol. The links help follow a material through different names and treatments. They do not mean that raw material and every product made from it are interchangeable.
Places to Read
Attramentum. A context-sensitive term ranging across copperas, ink and blacking.
Citrinulum. A vitriol-derived salt identified through transparency and preparation.
Vitriolatum. A vitriol characterized by a persistently liquid condition.
Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 13; facsimile PDF page 341 — Facsimile
See also. Attramentum; Citrinulum; Vitriolatum; Vitriolum Novum