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🜰 U+1F730, 🜰
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR REGULUS OF ANTIMONY
🜯
[U+1F72F]
Alchemical Symbols 🜱
[U+1F731]

Translingual

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Alternative forms

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  • The variant 🜲 more closely resembles a crown, this a flower

Etymology

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A pictograph of a crown (thus regulus) or of a flower

Symbol

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🜰

  1. (obsolete, alchemy) one of several symbols for regulus
    Synonyms: 🜴, 🜳, 🜵
  2. (obsolete, alchemy) specifically regulus of antimony; that is, antimony metal
    Synonyms: R♁, 🜱

Derived terms

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Latin

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Noun

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🜰us m (genitive 🜰lī); second declension

  1. (alchemy) Abbreviation of regulus.
    • c. 1653–1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, pages 183, 188:
      🜰us cum Spiritu faetenti.
      Accepi 🜰li 1ae fus: ℥46
      Regulus with stinking spirit.
      I took 46 oz of regulus of the first fusion

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative 🜰 🜰ī
genitive 🜰ī 🜰ōrum
dative 🜰ō 🜰īs
accusative 🜰um 🜰ōs
ablative 🜰ō 🜰īs
vocative 🜰e 🜰ī

Second-declension noun.