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[Alexandr Korol]

“Other Substances
Mundane (“worldly”) elements, ores, and other substances:

• Antimony (ore: stibnite, sublimate, salt)
• Arsenic
• Bismuth
• Platinum
• Zinc
• Amalgam
• Vitriol (a name for certain metal sulfates, especially copper sulfate)
• Gold
• Silver
• Rock Salt (halite, sal gemmae)
• Iron Ore (crocus martis, regulus martis)
• Copper Ore
• Copper Oxide (crocus veneris, aes ustum)
• Copper Acetate (aes viride)
• Alkali”

Now moving on to a separate section in Wikipedia: “The Philosopher’s Stone” — which, in fact, is where the first volume of “Alternative History” began. “Also known as the magisterium, the rebis, the elixir of the philosophers, the elixir of life, the red tincture, the great elixir, the fifth element — in the legends of medieval alchemists, it is a certain reagent necessary for the successful transmutation of metals into gold (The Great Work), as well as for the creation of the elixir of life.”