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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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A metallic tincture must be both readily fusible and incombustible, together with being fixed. These qualities are coordinated, not contradictory within the source’s account: the preparation should flow and penetrate without being dissipated by combustion. The description concerns a claimed operational performance, not a guarantee that the material is safe, nonreactive, or identifiable by one modern substance.
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- Book 7 · Transmutations · Passage 11Latin“fixae, fluxibilis & incombustibilis”