Chemical Investigation of the Difference Between Philosophical and Mineral Antimony, as well as Philosophical and Common Mercury

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while it is cooked and turns black, and this black matter, in that degree of its cooking while it putrefies, is called antimony. Now everyone can see how much this antimony is distinguished from common antimony: for common antimony is a thing that is finished and impure, in which Nature has ceased her work and cooking. But the philosophers' antimony is a pure and perfect metallic principle, cleared of all excrements, in which Nature acts most powerfully to perfect it to the final degree of perfection to which it can be perfected. Common antimony cannot be perfected by itself, and if fire is applied to cook it, anti-