Solve et Coagula

LITBefore element symbols (Berzelius, 1813) chemists wrote metals with planetary glyphs: gold the Sun, silver the Moon, mercury Mercury, copper Venus, iron Mars, tin Jupiter, lead Saturn; sulfur, antimony, arsenic and phosphorus had their own signs. Engraved here as a copperplate table. The glyphs are drawn from line strokes on this page, not copied from any source.

LIT · MODELThe displacement bath. Pick a metal to drop into a bath of mixed salts. The real activity series (K > Na > Ca > Mg > Al > Zn > Fe > Sn > Pb > H > Cu > Hg > Ag > Au) decides who plates out on whom. What emerges is a cascade: more active metals dissolve, nobler ones crystallise as trees on the wire (the alchemists' "Tree of Diana" is silver growing on mercury).

drop it in fresh bath

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