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🝥 U+1F765, 🝥
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR CRUCIBLE
🝤
[U+1F764]
Alchemical Symbols 🝦
[U+1F766]

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Manuscript abbreviation of 🝩

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🝥

  1. (obsolete, alchemy) an abbreviated alchemical symbol for crucible, tigillum
    Synonyms: 🝧, 🝨, 🜊

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🝥

  1. (alchemy) Alternative spelling of crucible
    • 1797, Sigismund Bacstrom, transl., Chemical Moon-Shine: Wherein is Demonstrated the True Subject of Philosophy, Where We are to Look for it, & How it is to be Prepared:
      When the 🜔 of Wisdom or Lapis philosophorum has passed its 7 Imbibitions and is thorougly[sic] fixed, take thereof One part and three parts of pure ☉ and let them melt together in a good 🝥, with a Lid luted on, and Keep it in fusion during 3 or 4 days in the 🜂, and the added ☉ will become brittle and glassy and become the metallic tinging Medicine.