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Orpiment, also known as ″yellow arsenic blende″ is a deep-colored, orange-yellow arsenic sulfide mineral with formula As 2 S 3.It is found in volcanic fumaroles, low-temperature hydrothermal veins, and hot springs and may be formed through sublimation.
Gypsum – a mineral; calcium sulfate. CaSO 4; Horn silver/argentum cornu – a weathered form of chlorargyrite, an ore of silver chloride. Luna cornea – silver chloride, formed by heating horn silver till it liquefies and then cooling. King's yellow – formed by mixing orpiment with white arsenic.
Arsenic blende or Arsenblende (German: Arsenblende, arsenik-blende) is a trivial name that has partially fallen out of scientific use, used by mineralogists, as well as representatives of mining and craft professions in relation to at least two similar ore minerals — orpiment and realgar, [1]: 135, 239, 438 in composition — arsenic sulfides.
Arsenic trisulfide is the inorganic compound with the formula As 2 S 3.It is a dark yellow solid that is insoluble in water. It also occurs as the mineral orpiment (Latin: auripigmentum), which has been used as a pigment called King's yellow.
The contrivance serves to sublimate mercury (zaybak), sulfur, orpiment (zarnīkh) and the like. It is made of glass or clay (fakhkhār) and consists of two tubes (ziḳḳ, actually hoses) fitted together. The mineral is put in the lower tube, the two tubes are fitted together with clay and the whole is put on the fire.
Arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3, the mineral orpiment; Arsenic pentasulfide, As 2 S 5, similar structure to phosphorus pentasulfide (β-P 2 S 5) Tetraarsenic tetrasulfide, As 4 S 4 (2 isomers): the mineral realgar; the mineral pararealgar; Tetraarsenic trisulfide, As 4 S 3, the mineral α- or β- dimorphite
Agathodaemon created his 'fiery poison' by fusing a mineral (probably realgar (seen here) or orpiment) with natron.. Agathodaemon (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαθοδαίμων, Agathodaímōn; c. 300) was an alchemist in late Roman Egypt, known only from fragments quoted in medieval alchemical treatises, chiefly the Anepigraphos, which refer to works of his believed to be from the 3rd century. [1]
"mineral powder on a stretched filter-cloth" (Needham and Lu). Many Chinese elixir names are compounds of dan, such as jīndān 金丹 (with "gold") meaning "golden elixir; elixir of immortality; potable gold" and xiāndān 仙丹 (with "Daoist immortal") "elixir of immortality; panacea", and shéndān 神丹 (with "spirit; god") "divine elixir".