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For there will always be more of this "sweet" water than of the strong water itself with which the ☽ Silver and ☉ Gold were extracted.

When the poured-off strong waters, in which ☽ and ☉ are, are poured together, then ☽ and ☉ fall out of both as a powder to the bottom, and no metal remains in either water. Also, the ▽ water/solvent does not become weaker through the pouring together of the ▽ in which ☽ is dissolved and the ℞ aqua regia in which ☉ is dissolved, but is afterward good again to extract other ☉, but no ☽. For since the ℞ has come to the ▽, the ▽ has also become an ℞ and dissolves no ☽, but only ☉. When this precipitation has happened and the clear ℞ has been poured off from the precipitate, there still remains much with the precipitated metals, namely ☉ and ☽, which ℞ one could indeed draw out through sweet ▽, but a good part would also be weakened thereby and made unfit for further use. Therefore it is better that one pours the mentioned Calces Solis calcined/powdered gold and Lunae calcined/powdered silver, together with the ℞ contained within them, into a tight linen cloth which is laid over a glass funnel or a wide-mouthed glass. Thus, the greater part of the ℞ runs through the cloth into the glass. When it has run so far that it will no longer run by itself, which happens in approximately half an hour, then one takes the