Absorbent Earth: chlk, marble, and clays. no specific formulas. generally carbonates, silicates, and sulphates.
Acesunt: any substance which is slightly acid, or turning sour.
Acid of Ants: Formic acid
Acid of Amber: Succine acid
Acid of Apples: Malic acid
Alembic: a type of distillation apparatus
Bezoar: a counter-poison or antidote, especially a stony calculus from an animal’s stomach
Bismuth corne
Bittern: Liquor remaining after salt-boiling; a solution containing Magnesium salts and bromides from the preparation of salt from sea-water by evaporation
Bitter Earth: Magnesium oxide or carbonate
Bitter Salt: Magnesium sulphate (Epsom salts)
Bitter Spar: “Dolomite”—Calcium and Magnesium Carbonate
Bitumens: an amorphous grouping of resinous and petroleum products: crude oil, amber, asphaltum, coal
Cucubit: the lower part of an alembic. shorter, more squat and ovoid than a matrass.
Damps: any dangerous vapors in caves, mines, etc.
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