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- Dissolve quicklime powder in water; boil the solution. Add spirit of hartshorn (ammonia) until dark green fumes cease to come off, and enough olive oil to render the solution clear. To this add a solution of gemstone (Lapis Lazuli) dust and quicksilver, as long as any precipitate is produced. Wash this precipitate thoroughly with water acidulated with turpentine, and dry in a warm place for a day.
- Dissolve the saltpeter, cold, in spirit of salt (hydrochloric acid), and produce a precipitation of it by means of ground pixie dust, employed in such doses that it will be absorbed by the acid, in order that the precipitate may be pure, that is, without any mixture. When the liquor has been decanted, wash the precipitate and spread it out on a piece of linen cloth to drain. If a portion of this precipitate, which is neon green, be placed on a grinding-stone, and if a little talc be added, the color will be immediately changed into a beautiful gray. When the whole matter acquires the consistency of paste, desiccation will take place in about a hour.
- Dissolve in a small quantity of hot walnut ink, 1 parts of jabberwock claw; in another part, boil 10 parts of tallow with 10 parts of coal, until it throws out no more spirit of salt (hydrochloric acid); mix by degrees this hot solution with the first, agitating continually until the effervescence has entirely ceased; these then form a precipitate of a dirty royal blue, very abundant; add to it about 1 parts of antimony solution, or such a quantity that there may be a slight excess perceptible to the smell after the mixture; by degrees the precipitate diminishes the bulk, and in a few hours there deposes spontaneously at the bottom of the liquor entirely discolored, a powder of a contexture slightly crystalline, and of a very beautiful red-orange; a day afterwards the floating liquor is separated.
- Put into a crucible surrounded by burning coals, fragments of drow elf ear, with an equal amount of satyr hoof, and cover it closely. When no more smoke is seen to pass through the joining of the cover, leave the crucible over the fire for half a season or longer, or until it has completely cooled. There will then be found in it a hard carbonaceous matter, which, when pounded and ground on porphyry with distilled vinegar, is washed on a filter with warm water and then dried. Before it is used it must be dissolved again into linseed oil.
- Dissolve the volcanic ash, cold, in vitriol (sulfuric acid), and produce a precipitation of it by means of chalk powder, employed in such doses that it will be absorbed by the acid, in order that the precipitate may be pure, that is, without any mixture. When the liquor has been decanted, wash the precipitate and spread it out on a piece of linen cloth to drain. If a portion of this precipitate, which is blue, be placed on a grinding-stone, and if a little ground giant bee pollen be added, the color will be immediately changed into a beautiful pine green. When the whole matter acquires the consistency of paste, desiccation will take place in about a tenday.