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12 Nitre and Salt Are Found in All Waters and Earths
German & Latin
1723 pp 66–67Denn koche man einen ⦶ mit seiner Erden unausgelaugt offt mit Wasser auf die Trockene ein, und dieses ein wenig starck, hernach wieder aufgestossen, wieder gekocht, wie vor, so wird man befinden, daß er sich je länger je mehr figirt, bis er endlich gar fix und alcalisch wird, daß er nimmer fulminirt, denn das Saltz ist nichts anders als ein reverberirter oder fixer Salpeter. Solche Fixation macht man geschwinder mit dem lebendigen Kalck oder andern Erden in via sicca, allwo der meiste Salpeter bleibt, da er sonst mit Kohlenstaub verpufft sehr viel und starck verfliegt, ex reactione subjecti contrarii; und noch geschwinder wird er figirt im Guß und Fluß, so man ihme ana Salis communis oder ein anders fixes Alcali zusetzt, so figirt er sich gleich; so man ihn denn fliessen läst, Schwefel oder Kohlen-Staub aufträgt, so fulminirt er nicht mehr, sondern ziehet zum Theil Schwefel und Kohlen zu sich und figirts auch mit.
The Golden Chain of Homer: 12 Nitre and Salt Are Found in All Waters and Earths
1723 pp 66–67If nitre, with its earth still unleached, is repeatedly boiled with water to dryness rather strongly, then broken up and boiled again as before, it will be found to become increasingly fixed, until finally entirely fixed and alkaline and no longer fulminating. Salt is thus nothing other than reverberated or fixed saltpeter. This fixation is made more quickly with quicklime or other earths by the dry way, retaining most of the saltpeter; otherwise, when deflagrated with charcoal dust, much of it flies away through the reaction of the opposing substance. It is fixed still more quickly in fusion by adding an equal amount of common salt or another fixed alkali. It fixes at once. If it is then kept molten and sulphur or charcoal dust applied, it no longer fulminates, but draws some sulphur and charcoal into itself and fixes them too.
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Reading The Golden Chain of Homer · 12 Nitre and Salt Are Found in All Waters and Earths · B1C12S002 · 1723 pp 66–67
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The two-book alchemical work of 1723 in German with a new English translation, 399 notes, eight historical diagrams, chapter outlines, keyword essays, a glossary, bibliography, subject index, and 400 discussion questions.
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Anonymous, Aurea Catena Homeri. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Johann Georg Böhme, 1723. Traditionally attributed to Anton Joseph Kirchweger; the attribution remains uncertain. Historical diagrams from the Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung copy digitized by e-rara.
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