3 months ago

Health & Science alchemy oil metal philosophers stone

Essentially just dissolve metal in acid. Distil off the water and volatile liquid portion. Sublimate the dry material. Re add the liquids to cause a chemical reaction. Then do it again to recycle.
The clear liquid is Water, volatile liquid is Air, together they form the alchemists "mercury"/solvent. The alkaline ashes are the Earth element. With water these can yield an alchemists "salt". Then the oily, acidic sublimated crystals are the Fire portion. These can be mixed with the earth via the middle portions/your solvent

That's what I'm coming to understand the alchemical process is from these experiments. Simple, right? The whole of the process and nature is within it. I guess once you understand it then it can happen.

I still need to do more experiments. There should be a third video coming later on.

Oil of metal in alchemy, Second test

Postnote - This isn't the organic oil as I tried to find. It's the volatile chloride of iron.

Timestamps
Introduction - 00:00
Dissolving iron in solution - 00:35
Setup - 2:52
Distilling off the clear liquid/Water portion - 3:17
Yellow liquid/Air portion - 4:19
Third stage, sublimation of fire/crystals - 5:15
After firing, showing gained materials - 6:39
Trying to reclaim the fire portion - 8:03
The process of how it works, my understandings/hypothesis - 8:26
Closing - 9:56