THAT ALCHEMICAL “TRANS” WORD
COMPILATION AND COMMENTARY
BY LUCY WARNER
DECEMBER 2, 2018


CHRYSOPOEIA, THE TRANSMUTATION OF "BASE METALS"

THERE IS AN ANCIENT CONNECTION BETWEEN MERCURY AND GOLD, AS WELL AS SEVERAL OTHER METALS. TURNING BASE METALS INTO GOLD, SPECIFICALLY MERCURY AND LEAD. RELATED TO THIS MAY BE THE FACT THAT PROSPECTORS IN THE OLD WEST USED MERCURY TO PICK UP PARTICLES OF GOLD DUST, SO MAY HAVE THE EARLIEST METAL WORKERS SOME FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO; AND THEN THE GOLD LADEN MERCURY COULD BE PROCESSED (BY HEAT, PROBABLY) SO AS TO RELEASE THE GOLD.

ANOTHER SECTION IN THESE ARTICLES STATES THAT MERCURY CAN LITERALLY DISSOLVE GOLD, SO IT IS VERY POSSIBLE THAT A MEANS OF RENDERING THE GOLD, SUCH AS BY HEAT, MAY HAVE WORKED WAY BACK THEN. THE ARTICLE SAID THAT MERCURY WILL BOIL AT A LOWER TEMPERATURE THAN GOLD WILL MELT, SO THE MERCURY COULD BE BOILED OFF AND THE GOLD WOULD REMAIN.

THERE WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL KIND OF GOLD THAT I SAW IN ONE OF MY MANY DOCUMENTARIES, THIS ONE BEING ABOUT MINING GOLD AND GOLD-BEARING ROCK. THAT ONE SAID THAT MOST GOLD OCCURS IN THE FORM OF TINY PARTICLES THAT WE CALL GOLD DUST, THAT CAN BE FOUND BY PANNING OR BY CRUSHING AND HEATING GOLD-BEARING ROCK. WHEN VOLCANIC MAGMA FILTERS UPWARD THROUGH FISSURES IN THE ROCK IT OFTEN GETS TRAPPED IN THE LITTLE CRACKS AND COOLS THERE. THE GOLD THEY SHOWED MADE BY THAT PROCESS LOOKED LIKE FRAGILE STRANDS OF GOLDEN MOSS.

IF YOU READ THROUGH THIS YOU WILL SEE A NUMBER OF SUGGESTIVE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MERCURY AND GOLD, SO THE ALCHEMISTS WERE NOT SO FAR FROM REALITY. HOWEVER, TO TRANSMUTE METALS TO GOLD IT REQUIRES BOMBARDMENT WITH ATOMIC PARTICLES AS IN THE SUPERCOLLIDERS.


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Alchemy
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Alchemy (from Arabic: al-kīmiyā)[1] was an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition[2] practiced throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia,[2] originating in Hellenistic Egypt (primarily Alexandria) between the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE.[3][4] It aims to purify, mature, and perfect certain objects.[2][5][6][n 1] Common aims were chrysopoeia, the transmutation of "base metals" (e.g., lead) into "noble metals" (particularly gold);[2] the creation of an elixir of immortality;[2] the creation of panaceas able to cure any disease; and the development of an alkahest, a universal solvent.[7] The perfection of the human body and soul was thought to permit or result from the alchemical magnum opus[2] and, in the Hellenistic and Western mystery tradition, the achievement of gnosis*.[6] In Europe, the creation of a philosopher's stone was variously connected with all of these projects.

[SEE GNOSIS, OR GNOSTICISM* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism.]

In English, the term is often limited to descriptions of European alchemy, but similar practices existed in the Far East, the Indian subcontinent, and the Muslim world.[2] In Europe, following the 12th-century Renaissance[2] produced by the translation of Medieval Islamic works on science and the rediscovery of Aristotelian philosophy, alchemists played a significant role in early modern science[8] (particularly chemistry and medicine). Islamic and European alchemists developed a structure of basic laboratory techniques, theory, terminology, and experimental method, some of which are still in use today. However, they continued antiquity's belief in four elements and guarded their work in secrecy including cyphers and cryptic symbolism. Their work was guided by Hermetic principles related to magic, mythology, and religion.[9]

. . . . The word alchemy comes from Old French alquemie, alkimie, used in Medieval Latin as alchymia. This name was itself brought from the Arabic word al-kīmiyā’ (الكيمياء‎ or الخيمياء‎) composed of two parts: the Late Greek term khēmeía (χημεία), khēmía (χημία), meaning 'to fuse or cast a metal',[14][15] and the Arabic definite article al- (الـ‎), meaning 'The'.[16] Together this association can be interpreted as 'the process of transmutation by which to fuse or reunite with the divine or original form'. Its roots can be traced to the Egyptian name kēme (hieroglyphic khmi ), meaning ‘black earth’ which refers to the fertile and auriferous* soil of the Nile valley, as opposed to red desert sand.[16]

Auriferous* -- of rocks or minerals containing gold.


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Mercury (element)
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. . . . Mercury dissolves many other metals such as gold and silver to form amalgams.

Mercury was found in Egyptian tombs that date from 1500 BC.[17]

In China and Tibet, mercury use was thought to prolong life, heal fractures, and maintain generally good health, although it is now known that exposure to mercury vapor leads to serious adverse health effects.[18] The first emperor of China, Qín Shǐ Huáng Dì—allegedly buried in a tomb that contained rivers of flowing mercury on a model of the land he ruled, representative of the rivers of China—was killed by drinking a mercury and powdered jade mixture formulated by Qin alchemists (causing liver failure, mercury poisoning, and brain death) who intended to give him eternal life.[19][20] Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun, the second Tulunid ruler of Egypt (r. 884–896), known for his extravagance and profligacy, reportedly built a basin filled with mercury, on which he would lie on top of air-filled cushions and be rocked to sleep.[21]

[A GENTLE QUESTION: HOW DID HE GET “AIR FILLED CUSHIONS” BEFORE RUBBER AND PLASTIC? CAREFULLY SEWN ANIMAL SKINS, MAYBE.]

In November 2014 "large quantities" of mercury were discovered in a chamber 60 feet below the 1800-year-old pyramid known as the "Temple of the Feathered Serpent," "the third largest pyramid of Teotihuacan," Mexico along with "jade statues, jaguar remains, a box filled with carved shells and rubber balls."[22]

The ancient Greeks used cinnabar (mercury sulfide) in ointments; the ancient Egyptians and the Romans used it in cosmetics. In Lamanai, once a major city of the Maya civilization, a pool of mercury was found under a marker in a Mesoamerican ballcourt.[23][24] By 500 BC mercury was used to make amalgams (Medieval Latin amalgama, "alloy of mercury") with other metals.[25]

Alchemists thought of mercury as the First Matter from which all metals were formed. They believed that different metals could be produced by varying the quality and quantity of sulfur contained within the mercury. The purest of these was gold, and mercury was called for in attempts at the transmutation of base (or impure) metals into gold, which was the goal of many alchemists.[16]

The mines in Almadén (Spain), Monte Amiata (Italy), and Idrija (now Slovenia) dominated mercury production from the opening of the mine in Almadén 2500 years ago, until new deposits were found at the end of the 19th century.[26]


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Nuclear transmutation
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The Sun is a natural fusion reactor, and transmutates light elements into heavier elements through stellar nucleosynthesis, a form of nuclear fusion.

Nuclear transmutation is the conversion of one chemical element or an isotope into another chemical element.[1] Because any element (or isotope of one) is defined by its number of protons (and neutrons) in its atoms, i.e. in the atomic nucleus, nuclear transmutation occurs in any process where the number of protons or neutrons in the nucleus is changed.

A transmutation can be achieved either by nuclear reactions (in which an outside particle reacts with a nucleus) or by radioactive decay, where no outside cause is needed.

Natural transmutation by stellar nucleosynthesis in the past created most of the heavier chemical elements in the known existing universe, and continues to take place to this day, creating the vast majority of the most common elements in the universe, including helium, oxygen and carbon. Most stars carry out transmutation through fusion reactions involving hydrogen and helium, while much larger stars are also capable of fusing heavier elements up to iron late in their evolution.


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Synthesis of precious metals
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The synthesis of precious metals involves the use of either nuclear reactors or particle accelerators to produce these elements.

Precious metals produced via irradiation

Gold synthesis in a nuclear reactor

Gold was synthesized from mercury by neutron bombardment in 1941, but the isotopes of gold produced were all radioactive.[12] In 1924, a Japanese physicist, Hantaro Nagaoka, accomplished the same feat.[13]

Gold can currently be manufactured in a nuclear reactor by the irradiation of either platinum or mercury.

Only the mercury isotope 196Hg, which occurs with a frequency of 0.15% in natural mercury, can be converted to gold by slow neutron capture, and following electron capture, decay into gold's only stable isotope, 197Au. When other mercury isotopes are irradiated with slow neutrons, they also undergo neutron capture, but either convert into each other or beta decay into the thallium isotopes 203Tl and 205Tl.

Using fast neutrons, the mercury isotope 198Hg, which composes 9.97% of natural mercury, can be converted by splitting off a neutron and becoming 197Hg, which then decays into stable gold. This reaction, however, possesses a smaller activation cross-section and is feasible only with unmoderated reactors.

It is also possible to eject several neutrons with very high energy into the other mercury isotopes in order to form 197Hg. However such high-energy neutrons can be produced only by particle accelerators.[clarification needed].

In 1980, Glenn Seaborg transmuted several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. His experimental technique, using nuclear physics, was able to remove protons and neutrons from the bismuth atoms. Seaborg's technique was far too expensive to enable the routine manufacture of gold but his work is the closest yet to emulating the mythical Philosopher's Stone.[14][15]