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🜍 U+1F70D, 🜍
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR SULFUR
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Alchemical Symbols 🜎 β†’

Translingual

Etymology

Possibly πŸœ‚ fire plus 🜊 crucible

Symbol

🜍

  1. (alchemy, archaic) sulphur/sulfur, brimstone
  2. (astronomy, obsolete) 19th-century typographic variant of ⚴, the symbol for asteroid (2) Pallas
  3. (astrology) cardinal zodiacal modality
    Synonym:

Derived terms

English

Noun

🜍 (plural 🜍rs)

  1. (alchemy) Abbreviation of sulphur.
    • 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 250:
      Edward he sayth that the Philosophers doe write of two 🜍rs & to them two ☿es joyned, & these are Red most pure & white.

Latin

Noun

🜍 n sg (genitive 🜍is); third declension

  1. (alchemy) Abbreviation of sulphur.
    • 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.
    • 1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin–German and German–Latin], page 69:
      Cinnabaris PhiloΕΏophorum, 🝞atur ex 🜍re ♁nii cum ☿rio mixto ΕΏepties
      Philosophers' cinnabar is sublimated from sulfur of antimony mixed with mercury seven times

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

singular plural
nominative 🜍 🜍a
genitive 🜍is 🜍um
dative 🜍ī 🜍ibus
accusative 🜍 🜍a
ablative 🜍e 🜍ibus
vocative 🜍 🜍a

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).