solificatio

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Latin

Etymology

From sōl (sun, Sun; gold) +‎ -ficō (-ify) +‎ -tiō (-tion). Compare sōlificus.

Noun

sōlificātiō f (genitive sōlificātiōnis); third declension

  1. (alchemy) the making of gold
    • c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 204:
      Nota quoque, quod ex 🜵 non fit sine sequestratione 🜍is Combustibilis Copiosi, Ergo & hoc ad Solificationem & Lunificationem sequestrari convenit.
      Note also that mercury is not made from regulus without the separation of copious combustible sulfur; therefore, it is fitting for solifaction and lunifaction for this sulfur to be removed.

Declension

Third-declension noun.