Analytical chemistry reveals secrets of alchemy

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00706-021-02813-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00706-021-02813-8</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Analytical chemistry reveals secrets of alchemy
Original language description
The review collects papers on the application of analytical chemistry in revealing the history of alchemy. In addition to historical alchemical texts, preserved material remains can also be a valuable source of information for historians of alchemy. The first part of the review focuses on the analysis of material artifacts: the remains of alleged transmutations (alchemical gold and silver), the rarely preserved specimens of Philosophers' Stone, alchemical medicines, remains of alchemical vessels and laboratories (cupellation included), and analysis of the bodily remains of the alchemists themselves. Non-destructive spectrometric methods predominate in these analyses. Experimental reconstruction of the course and the results of old alchemical processes and their subsequent analysis is another way to reveal the history of alchemy. This approach, which has only been used in recent decades, is covered in the second part of the review. The published individual reconstructions are set in a chemical-historical context and arranged into three time periods: ancient and Arabian alchemy, medieval and renaissance alchemy, and late alchemy and chymistry. The review demonstrates that analytical chemistry is a very effective and potent technique for discovering new information about the history of alchemy.
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10406 - Analytical chemistry

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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