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  2. Philosopher's stone - Wikipedia

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    The philosopher's stone [a] is a mythic alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold or silver; [b] it was also known as "the tincture" and "the powder". Alchemists additionally believed that it could be used to make an elixir of life which made possible rejuvenation and immortality .

  3. Electrum - Wikipedia

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    Electrum was often referred to as "white gold" in ancient times but could be more accurately described as pale gold because it is usually pale yellow or yellowish-white in color. The modern use of the term white gold usually refers to gold alloyed with any one or a combination of nickel, silver, platinum and palladium to produce a silver ...

  4. Taaffeite - Wikipedia

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    Taaffeite (/ ˈ t ɑː f aɪ t /; BeMgAl 4 O 8) is a mineral, named after its discoverer Richard Taaffe (1898–1967) who found the first sample, a cut and polished gem, in October 1945 in a jeweler's shop in Dublin, Ireland.

  5. Table of magical correspondences - Wikipedia

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    A table of magical correspondences is a list of magical correspondences between items belonging to different categories, such as correspondences between certain deities, heavenly bodies, plants, perfumes, precious stones, etc. [1] Such lists were compiled by 19th-century occultists like Samuel Liddell Mathers and William Wynn Westcott (both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ...

  6. Lapidary (text) - Wikipedia

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    Title page of a printed lapidary by Conrad Gessner of 1565. A lapidary is a text in verse or prose, often a whole book, that describes the physical properties and metaphysical virtues of precious and semi-precious stones, that is to say, a work on gemology. [1]

  7. List of alchemical substances - Wikipedia

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    Dutch White – a pigment, formed from one part of white lead to three of barium sulfate. BaSO 4; Flowers of antimony – antimony trioxide, formed by roasting stibnite at high temperature and condensing the white fumes that form. Sb 2 O 3; Fool's gold – a mineral, iron disulfide or pyrite; can form oil of vitriol on contact with water and air.

  8. Category:Concepts in metaphysics - Wikipedia

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    Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy exploring the fundamental questions, including the nature of concepts like being, existence, and reality.Traditional metaphysics seeks to answer, in a "suitably abstract and fully general manner", the questions:

  9. Colored gold - Wikipedia

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    White gold is an alloy of gold and at least one white metal (usually nickel, silver, platinum or palladium). [5] Like yellow gold, the purity of white gold is given in karats. White gold's properties vary depending on the metals used and their proportions. A common white gold formulation consists of 90% wt. gold and 10% wt. nickel. [4] Copper ...

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