Forums http://forum.alchemyforums.com Alchemy forum on alchemy covering both practical alchemy and spiritual alchemy and more. en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:51:30 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forum.alchemyforums.com/images/misc/rss.jpg Forums http://forum.alchemyforums.com Calcium acetate dry distillation http://forum.alchemyforums.com/showthread.php?t=1694&goto=newpost Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:09:35 GMT Sea shells are left to dissolve in concentrated vinegar.



This vinegar was distilled once by freezing and then, it was distilled normally (by fire) in order to get rid of the red color. The resulting distillate was about 13 degrees baume (this is not accurate, I measured the viscosity with a viscometer used for wine). The vinegar I started from, had 6 degrees.
This is the viscometer I used:



Calcium acetate was evaporated in low fire:



About 10 grams of it were dry distilled. I used similar setup as in tartar distillation.
First passes the phlegh, it behaves like water (it is water acording to sources) and smells emetic.
Then the condenser fills with thick white fume. It condenses to the golden liquid. It has a sweet aroma but the emetic smell from the phlegm is still there because I didn't changed the flask (very little material).
This golden liquid is what I have collected finally:



I burned some of it. It leaves behind a white watery milk.

The fumes in the condensor are mesmerising to observe. I think that the acetone and oils are formed at the time when those fumes condense, not when they leave th metal. I say that because when someone distills the acetone to purify it, it does not have white fumes, it is transparent in the gas state.

Acording to sources (Becker) calcium acetate yields mostly acetone, without the red oil. This acetone can be distilled off. Some use it to extract metals and it gets a red color. I think this is mistaken. Acetone self condnsates when heated (digested) either there is a metal in it or not. The same happens with tartar volatile distillates. They extract nothing from the metal, they are just colored red after heating.

Buy comercial acetone (for nails), throw in some drops of concentrated sulfuric acid, you get all the color evolution (transparent to yellow to red) in just some minutes:



This is the famous potable gold refered to by Bartlett and other sources. Ok, maybe the metal works as a catalyst on it and produces sth diffrent but I believe that the acetone+sulfuric acid will show up the same in distillation tests and CG/MS scans as in Bartlett's "The way of the crucible" book.

So, what is left to check from the acetate process?

1) The medicinal qualities of the acetone, according to Becker's document. I think in a magazine called "ora et labora" there are info on how to proceed with oyster shells. I would appreciate if sb can share that info.

2) The red oil that can physically dissolve gold.

3) The stone can be confected if you repeatedly imbibe the Salt with fresh Mercury, in the same way you make a plant stone. This is not easy, I think, one must gain experience by making first the plant stone (minor opus) before embarking to this resources and time consuming process.
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]]> Practical Alchemy theFool http://forum.alchemyforums.com/showthread.php?t=1694 Destilliation setup for neophytes http://forum.alchemyforums.com/showthread.php?t=1693&goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:57:13 GMT Here is a simple and inexpensive way to build a operative destilliation setup for beginners.Thank's go to Seth-Ra for reminding me of the "Guerilla Alchemy".

Materials:

The chinese teapot



Liqour bottle (it was Mozart liqour)



Drinking glas



"Sand-cupel"



So here it is:
True Puffer's destilliation equipment for neophytes!







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Well, it was actually good this happened over the summer... activity always goes down at that time - if we are going to see something positive.



I know what the problem is, and the people supposed to do it for money either could not or yet have not. So like most things easiest to fix by myself, problem is this is a PC thing (can't fix it on my Mac). But I think I have one now I can use.

Any additional advice is helpful.

BACKSTORY
Reason for delay in dealing with this, and with broken deadlines, have been many and I won't bore you with them. But for a long time I was not able to enter the forums to do anything, I have got rid of that block now.

Also I have been doing a lot of stuff off-line, so it really came at a bad time.

Then on top of this the fee for the URL went out, that is why it closed. I didn't know it was due. Paid now.

FUTURE
The forums continue, we will do some cleaning... and then back to business!

In the meantime things should function as they did... I know how to stop the blockage with Mac, not with PC. Members have already suggested stuff in other threads.

Thanks to Andro, Ghislain, Sol, sleeveless and others for some aid.

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