Post #1896958
2026-03-05 15:06 UTC
Aqua Regia is useful in the production of dangerous orange smoke.
@RogerBW @WolfeRJ @BigJackBrass @Taskerland @satsuma
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@Printdevil@dice.camp 2026-03-05 15:13
Thomas Norton's The Ordinal of Alchemy is a great book. Weirdly in prose, it's one of the last books about "how to do stuff with things" before Alchemy becomes a philosophical artform. The books of that time around the 1400-1500s are packed with brilliant stuff to accommodate for the lack of structured chemical theory. Norton has a whole scale of temperatures with stuff like "the point at which duck fat melts" @RogerBW @WolfeRJ @BigJackBrass @Taskerland @satsuma