Salarmoniacum - Ammonia
"Salarmoniacum, which is the most potent key to unlocking metals, is likened to the volatile birds of antiquity. Without preparation, it is of little or no value; for it destroys and shatters metals more than it improves them. Through its fumatorium, it carries with it the tincture, colors of minerals, and some metals to the peaks of mountains. There, in the scorching heat of midsummer, where abundant snow is found, it can swiftly ascend with its rapid wings.
If, however, it is propelled with common salt, it purges itself to become clear and pure for practical use. One who presumes immature volatility of metals from this salt touches upon nothing, as it lacks such a faculty. However, it suffices to destroy metal and render it suitable for transformation. No metal can be changed without preparation.
My ultimate art can be drawn out in subliming and cementing, but you will find my supreme secret when I am united with the hydra and transformed into it. I adorned the bath of the nymphs, and the power was given to me to perfect the royal crown, so that adorned with gems, it can be fittingly adapted with glory."
https://www.dhi.ac.uk/ha...m0=title_basil#highlight"Basil Valentine showed that ammonia could be obtained by the action of alkalies on sal-ammoniac. At a later period when sal-ammoniac was obtained by distilling the hoofs and horns of oxen, and neutralizing the resulting carbonate with hydrochloric acid, the name spirits of hartshorn was applied to ammonia."
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