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- (alchemy): At least in manuscript, the square may be attached to the bottom of the planetary symbol rather than enclosing it.[1]
◌⃞
- (alchemy) Metal leaf or foil, when combined with the governing planet for the metal.[2]
- ☽⃞ and ☾⃞ (silver foil)
- ☉⃞ (gold foil)
- 🜚⃞ (old-style variant for gold foil)
- ♀⃞ (copper foil)
- ♂⃞ (iron foil)
- ♃⃞ (tin foil; old-style electrum foil)
- ☿⃞ (old-style tin foil)
- ♄⃞ (lead foil)
- ⛢⃞ (platinum foil)
- ^ Marcianus graecus 299, folio 6
- ^ G.W. Geßmann (1864) Die Geheimsymbole der Alchymie, Arzneikunde und Astrologie des Mittelalters. Ulm.
