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Translingual
Etymology
A simplified skull. Variants may look like ⟨๐︎⟩.
Symbol
๐
- (alchemy, archaic) caput mortuum
- (alchemy, archaic) nigredo
Latin
Noun
๐o f (genitive ๐is); third declension
- (alchemy) Abbreviation of nigredo.
c. 1653–1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, pages 188, 196:Accepi ๐ฐli 1ae fus: โฅ46, ๐i ๐
is โฅ57, in ollรข amplรข simul liquavi, & โปis Marini lb Circiter 3 addidi.
tum ๐ญam frange, & sublimatum separa a ๐o, quod etiam aquรข calidรข Elixa, puta salem dulcem ๐atum purum in se Continet quem extrahe.- I took 46 oz of regulus of the first fusion and 57 oz of nigredo of aquafort, and I melted them together in a large pot and added about three pounds of sea salt.
then break your retort and separate the sublimate from the nigredo, which you should also wash with hot water, to extractthe sweet vitriolate salt that it contains within itself.
Declension
Third-declension noun.