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Reverberation and striking down

Reverberatio; Reverberationem; reverberari

Reverberation is generally a furnace operation associated with calcination, refining, and separating volatile constituents.

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Nine Books on the Nature of Things

Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

Reverberation is generally a furnace operation associated with calcination, refining, and separating volatile constituents. The related verb reverberari has a different local use in the account of dissolved copper, where the edition renders it as striking material down from a liquid. That solution-context sense should not be automatically replaced with reflected furnace heat merely because the word recurs.

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  1. Book 8 · Separation · Passage 24Latin“reverberari ita poterit”