Experiments in alchemy. Part II: Medieval

[Paul Ferguson]

"The authors consider a number of medieval discoveries from the heyday of alchemy: Greek fire, gunpowder sulfurous water, distillation, acids, bases, lead acetate, transmutations, slug gold, Tiffereau's gold, and "Spanish gold."


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https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ed053p235