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Possibly ⟨🜂⟩ fire plus ⟨🜊⟩ crucible

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1. (alchemy, archaic) sulphur/sulfur, brimstone
2. (astronomy, obsolete) 19th-century typographic variant of ⟨⚴⟩, the symbol for asteroid (2) Pallas
3. (astrology) cardinal zodiacal modality

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• 🜎

🜍 (plural 🜍rs)

1. (alchemy) Abbreviation of sulphur.
   • c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 250:

     Edward he sayth that the Philosophers doe write of two 🜍rs & to them two ☿es joyned, & these are Red most pure & white.

🜍 n sg (genitive 🜍is); third declension

1. (alchemy) abbreviation of sulphur
   • c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 204:

     Nota quoque, quod ☿ ex 🜵 non fit sine sequestratione 🜍is Combustibilis Copiosi, Ergo & hoc ad Solificationem & Lunificationem sequestrari convenit.

     Note also that mercury is not made from regulus without the separation of copious combustible sulfur; therefore, it is fitting for solifaction and lunifaction for this sulfur to be removed.

   • 1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin–German and German–Latin], page 69:

     Cinnabaris Philoſophorum, 🝞atur ex 🜍re ♁nii cum ☿rio mixto ſepties

     Philosophers' cinnabar is sublimated from sulfur of antimony mixed with mercury seven times

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).