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distilled wine vinegar. Pour these three together. Then distill them diligently. Seal it and distill once from the Bain-Marie a gentle water bath. Distill it a second time completely over from the ashes. Then it is correct.

The Sideric ASA, how to separate it from the Iron Realgar; this proceeds as follows.

Take as much as you wish of the best, most fusible, subtle iron filings. Moisten them with a distilled wine vinegar in which vitriol has been solved dissolved so that the vinegar is blue. Stir it every day until everything is well rusted through and ground down so that it can be rubbed between the fingers like flour. Take one pound of this rusty Mars iron or iron filings and put it into a glass. Over it, pour as much as you please of the spirit of vitriol from step number 3, which has been tempered mixed with two parts of common clear water. Seal the glass. Keep it in gentle warmth for four or five days until the water has become thick and colored a deep parrot-green. Then pour this extract away from the dregs original: "fecibus". Filter it. Then draw off three parts of the water in a Bain-Marie. Place the rest in a damp spot, so that parrot-green