Alchemical Dictionary - K
- KACHIMIA
or
- KAKIMIA
- Rulandus: is the Immature Minera of any
Metal, otherwise an Imperfect Metal, still in its first state, like the
child hidden in the womb of his mother. Thirty species are known.
- KAIB
- Rulandus: Sour Milk.
- KAL
- Rulandus: is Salt from a torrent.
- KALD
- Rulandus: Vinegar.
- KALI
- Rulandus: is Clavellated Ashes, i.e., Potash, Woad-Ash, or Pearl-Ash.
A Salt, Vegetable, or Plant. Its ashes, if burnt, combine into a heap.
It is Soda from which Glass is made. The Salt which flows out in melting
during the process of Glass-making is Sal Alkali.
- KALI
- Rulandus: The Arabian Usnen; Rhasis identifies it with Alumen
Asfur.
- KALNOS
- Rulandus: is Smoke.
- KAMAR, CAMAR
or
- KYANA
- Rulandus: Names of Silver.
- KAMIR
- Rulandus: is Ferment.
- KANSOR
- Rulandus: is Tin.
- KAPRILI
- Rulandus: is Sulphur.
- KAR
- Rulandus: is a brilliant and fiery precious Stone.
- KARABE
- Rulandus: is a Gum, like amber.
- KARLINA
- Rulandus: is Dill or Anise.
- KARTINA
- Rulandus: Wild Spice.
- KASAM
- Rulandus: is Iron.
- KATIMIA, GREEK CADMIA, LATIN CALAMINA
or
- CALAMINE STONE
- Rulandus: is Ore of Zinc. But Calamine is a Root of Tutty, and indeed Tutty itself,
in a raw state. It is the Stone, whereby the ore is dyed into brass-colour.
True Tutty cleaves to the top of the oven.
- KAYL
- Rulandus: is Sour Milk.
- KAYSIR
- Rulandus: is Pumice Stone.
- KAZDIR, KASDIR, KACIR, KASSICEROS
- Rulandus: are names of Tin.
- KIBRIC
- Rulandus: is the Father and the First Matter of Mercury and
all Fluids. That from which Mercury comes. The Stone is also called Kibric.
- KIBRITH
- Rulandus: is Sulphur.
- KISES
- Rulandus: Salt from a Spring.
- KOBOLTUM, KOBALTUM
or
- COLLETUM
- Rulandus: is a Metallic Substance,
darker than lead or iron, sometimes of ashen hue, wanting in metallic tint
or lustre. It can be melted and made into plates. It is not fixed, but
takes away the higher metals with it in smoke. It is also Cadmia Stone,
from which a useful medicine is made, Copperstone, Climia, Cathimia, Ore
of Zinc. It is a pillaging Sulphur, which takes away the good ore in smoke.
- KOMA
or
- KOMARTOS
- Rulandus: is living Calx.
- KONIS
- Rulandus: is Ash.
- KOST
- Rulandus: is the Beech Tree.
- KUHUL
- Rulandus: is Lead of the Philosophers. See Turba, Fol. 21.
- KUMEN
- Rulandus: is Unity.
- KURIA
or
- KYMIA
- Rulandus: is Lump, Mass. The same art is called
Alchimia, Alkymia.
- KYBRIUS
or
- KEBRICK
- Rulandus: is Arsenic.
- KYMIT ELEVATUM
- Rulandus: is White Sublimed Cinnabar.
- KYMUS
- Rulandus: is Lump, Mass.
- KYMUM
or
- KYMINUM
- Rulandus: is a joining or Uniting.
- KYMIA
- Rulandus: is the Instrument or Cucurbit used for Distillation.
- KYMENNA
- Rulandus: is a Vessel of Clay, narrow-necked and big-bellied.
- KYMOLEA
- Rulandus: is Slime which collects under the whetstone, on which
weapons are sharpened.
- KYRAM
- Rulandus: is Snow.
- KYVA
- Rulandus: is Opoponax, Gum-resin of Parsnip-root.
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