Dry Distillation of Acetate Salts
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Re: Dry Distillation of Acetate Salts
Ah, so it's basically the same I'd assume. Maybe slightly different according to the particular bond potential between the metal and the acetate, but only slightly.The acid smells the same as all the other acids I've obtained by dry distillation.
Have you approximate temperatures in which the acetone begins distilling over? Maybe we could compare the starting temperature, when the acetone begins coming over, to the various salts of acetate. I'd like to know which comes over at the lowest temperature. I have a suspicion it might've been lead acetate, but this is more of a poke in the dark (of course the decomposition temp of lead acetate is only 100C, much less than the others ). Can't wait to see how it goes.At higher temperatures it may give acetone(similar to gold).I will be trying this soon.
I understand. I agree 100% with you, the acetate work IS very interesting. I need to get off my lazy butt and get to work.Working with acetates is very interesting.I need to learn more before attempting to make a Stone.
EDIT: Also I believe silver acetate is photosensitive, did you work in the dark? If this is the case, then I have to admit, it backs up the words of various alchemists "our work is to be done in the dark."
I would like to see what happens with mercury acetate, but as you can well understand, this would be quite dangerous! I can only imagine the horrible, life threatening, vapors. Mercury acetate begins to decompose around 179°C.
Re: Dry Distillation of Acetate Salts
Have you approximate temperatures in which the acetone begins distilling over? Maybe we could compare the starting temperature, when the acetone begins coming over, to the various salts of acetate. I'd like to know which comes over at the lowest temperature. I have a suspicion it might've been lead acetate, but this is more of a poke in the dark. Can't wait to see how it goes.
The acetone of gold distilled over only when I used a gas burner. It is a small burner that runs on butane and is used for cooking purposes.I'm not sure what temperature it produces.
From personal experience, I can say that lead and zinc acetates are the easiest to work with to get acetone.
Also I believe silver acetate is photosensitive, did you work in the dark?
I worked under artificial lighting.No sunlight fell on it.I think indoor lighting doesn't produce enough UV rays to bring about decomposition.
I would like to see what happens with mercury acetate, but as you can well understand, this would be quite dangerous! I can only imagine the horrible, life threatening, vapors. Mercury acetate begins to decompose around 179°C
lol.
I really wanted to try this but mercury is very costly here.
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Re: Dry Distillation of Acetate Salts
Would you mind testing this by taking a small amount of silver acetate in solution and taking it outside. Should decompose into elemental silver. It's unnecessary, but it's more of a personal curiosity.I worked under artificial lighting.No sunlight fell on it.I think indoor lighting doesn't produce enough UV rays to bring about decomposition.
Quite understandable. Ah, you can obtain it from mercury sulfide (vermillion) if you distill it multiple times, you should have relatively pure quicksilver (I'm sure you knew this already, heh). Also, look for mechanical tilt switches, they should have a small glob of mercury inside - just break these open, and voila.lol.
I really wanted to try this but mercury is very costly here.
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Ah, you can obtain it from mercury sulfide (vermillion) if you distill it multiple times, you should have relatively pure quicksilver (I'm sure you knew this already, heh).
I just found out that vermillion is available as sindoor here in India.
Maybe I can work with mercuric acetate after all....
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Heh, if I were you, I would make a primitive retort out of iron/steel pipe. This will be much better than contaminating your glassware. Atleast, that's what I would do in your situation.I just found out that vermillion is available as sindoor here in India.
Maybe I can work with mercuric acetate after all....
Re: Dry Distillation of Acetate Salts
"Ah,this is interesting.
Have you tried using a glass/plastic lid instead of a metal one?
Could you elaborate on the process used in making the gold acetate?"
I have not tried using glass or plastic yet but I will give it a shot once I get a distillation unit. With the gold acetate you just add the Aetheric Gold in Distilled Water to Vinegar, seal, and putrefy.
"'It was elemental gold dissolved in distilled water.'
Are you referring to colloidal gold here?"
It's not colloidal from what I can tell. The solution is actually clear but it has gold dissolved in it apparently
Have you tried using a glass/plastic lid instead of a metal one?
Could you elaborate on the process used in making the gold acetate?"
I have not tried using glass or plastic yet but I will give it a shot once I get a distillation unit. With the gold acetate you just add the Aetheric Gold in Distilled Water to Vinegar, seal, and putrefy.
"'It was elemental gold dissolved in distilled water.'
Are you referring to colloidal gold here?"
It's not colloidal from what I can tell. The solution is actually clear but it has gold dissolved in it apparently
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Failure
I've attempted to distill acetone out of gold and silver acetates several times in the past few days. Sadly , all of them have been failures. Only an acid distills off even at high temperatures.
This means that so far I've obtained acetone from gold only once.I'm forced to conclude that that must have been due to the presence of sodium acetate impurities.But it did extract a red oil from gold...
This means that so far I've obtained acetone from gold only once.I'm forced to conclude that that must have been due to the presence of sodium acetate impurities.But it did extract a red oil from gold...
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Hmm, that's actually kind of interesting. I was fairly surprised when I heard you obtained acetone from gold/silver acetate. I was also kind of surprised when you obtained it from copper acetate. These three are only supposed to produce a radical acetic acid. Atleast that's what the literature states.I've attempted to distill acetone out of gold and silver acetates several times in the past few days. Sadly , all of them have been failures. Only an acid distills off even at high temperatures.
This means that so far I've obtained acetone from gold only once.I'm forced to conclude that that must have been due to the presence of sodium acetate impurities.But it did extract a red oil from gold...
Philosophical and Unphilosophical - The Acetate Path
I am very glad to see an interest in the Acetate Path, and I have read all of the posts in this thread.. I tip my hat to you on attempting these rare experiments. What I see here is that there are several reasons for the failed attempts, and I would like to point out where Alchemy departs from modern Chemistry. Trying to separate out the physical actions of the alchemist in the laboratory from these interior connections, bridging the spiritual and physical realms, reduces it to common chemistry. Compounding and purifying materials through chemical processes is not going to get us anywhere in Alchemy. There is a misconception regarding Spiritual and Practical Alchemy. Refining the practice of practical alchemy, requires increasing ones understanding of the philosophy or theory of alchemy. Increasing ones understanding of the theory of alchemy requires work and prayer (Ora et Labora). So alchemy really is a double headed snake.
The experiments discussed here in this thread, are basically chemistry experiments only. The result is going to be different then if the experiment were carried out according to the philosophy of alchemy. The processes used in laboratory alchemy strive to capture and preserve the operation of subtle essences in a suitable vehicle all the way to their material analogs.
In chemistry, we take certain ingredients and combine them through a process to obtain a certain result. And it is always the same result whether I mix it or you mix it. In alchemy this is not always the case. There is a subtle something, which can influence the end result.
Materials obtained through commercial means which are compounded and purified through processes would be considered by alchemists to be Unphilosophical and are dead bodies only. So what is Philosophical? To have your materials be philosophically prepared means you must follow the philosophy of alchemy and realize you are working with the life force and consciousness of your materials as well as the body. Gold hydroxide bought at the chemistry store for example is a dead body only. You cannot extract Philosophical Mercury from these materials, hence you cannot prepare the Philosophers Stone this way.
I am familiar enough with the theory of alchemy to lead you on the right track. I won’t disclose the methods and I'm leaving out some details, as they must remain concealed from the puffers who wish to commercialize these preparations. However, I can provide direction to those who are interested. Write me privately if you would like to learn more. I am more than willing to help fellow alchemists.
Preferably the starting materials should be Oxides, Carbonates, Sulphides, and Sulphates. These should be native ores extracted right from the earth. So my first suggestion would be to start with at least 5 to 10 pounds of raw metal ore, and calcine it to the oxide. Preparing a metal calx requires powdering the ore, and calcining it to drive off the impurities. Next, I suggest preparing the Radical Vinegar from copper acetate first. I won’t for sake of the puffers disclose the method here. Once the Radical Vinegar has been prepared, one uses the Radical Vinegar to convert the metal subject (gold oxide, etc) to acetate. The resulting acetate is dry distilled slowly at first, and then the temperature is increased to about 400 to 700 degrees C. The resulting distillate contains three secret substances. Since they are secret I cannot divulge any more about them. If you would like to know about them, and how to work with them, I suggest looking to the 1450’s alchemist George Ripley’s ‘Liber Secretisimuss’ also called "The Whole Work of the Composition of the Philosophical Stone and Grand Elixir, and of the First Solution of the Grosse Bodies." which can be found from the RAMS library. Basically, you must separate out these three substances and work with them to purify them further, before recombining them in its new exalted form. In conclusion if you do not do these operations correctly, and without the proper attitude, you will only run into disappointment and you might even harm yourself. Best of luck Brothers and Sisters!
-Rae
The experiments discussed here in this thread, are basically chemistry experiments only. The result is going to be different then if the experiment were carried out according to the philosophy of alchemy. The processes used in laboratory alchemy strive to capture and preserve the operation of subtle essences in a suitable vehicle all the way to their material analogs.
In chemistry, we take certain ingredients and combine them through a process to obtain a certain result. And it is always the same result whether I mix it or you mix it. In alchemy this is not always the case. There is a subtle something, which can influence the end result.
Materials obtained through commercial means which are compounded and purified through processes would be considered by alchemists to be Unphilosophical and are dead bodies only. So what is Philosophical? To have your materials be philosophically prepared means you must follow the philosophy of alchemy and realize you are working with the life force and consciousness of your materials as well as the body. Gold hydroxide bought at the chemistry store for example is a dead body only. You cannot extract Philosophical Mercury from these materials, hence you cannot prepare the Philosophers Stone this way.
I am familiar enough with the theory of alchemy to lead you on the right track. I won’t disclose the methods and I'm leaving out some details, as they must remain concealed from the puffers who wish to commercialize these preparations. However, I can provide direction to those who are interested. Write me privately if you would like to learn more. I am more than willing to help fellow alchemists.
Preferably the starting materials should be Oxides, Carbonates, Sulphides, and Sulphates. These should be native ores extracted right from the earth. So my first suggestion would be to start with at least 5 to 10 pounds of raw metal ore, and calcine it to the oxide. Preparing a metal calx requires powdering the ore, and calcining it to drive off the impurities. Next, I suggest preparing the Radical Vinegar from copper acetate first. I won’t for sake of the puffers disclose the method here. Once the Radical Vinegar has been prepared, one uses the Radical Vinegar to convert the metal subject (gold oxide, etc) to acetate. The resulting acetate is dry distilled slowly at first, and then the temperature is increased to about 400 to 700 degrees C. The resulting distillate contains three secret substances. Since they are secret I cannot divulge any more about them. If you would like to know about them, and how to work with them, I suggest looking to the 1450’s alchemist George Ripley’s ‘Liber Secretisimuss’ also called "The Whole Work of the Composition of the Philosophical Stone and Grand Elixir, and of the First Solution of the Grosse Bodies." which can be found from the RAMS library. Basically, you must separate out these three substances and work with them to purify them further, before recombining them in its new exalted form. In conclusion if you do not do these operations correctly, and without the proper attitude, you will only run into disappointment and you might even harm yourself. Best of luck Brothers and Sisters!
-Rae
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Re: Dry Distillation of Acetate Salts
It seems you succeeded. A similar pic of the red oil condensing on the arm comes from Paracelsus college lab:A red oil condenses near the neck of the retort along with zinc oxide.
You can check now if this red oil dissolves gold.
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raedotted wrote:I am familiar enough with the theory of alchemy to lead you on the right track. I won’t disclose the methods and I'm leaving out some details, as they must remain concealed from the puffers who wish to commercialize these preparations. However, I can provide direction to those who are interested. Write me privately if you would like to learn more. I am more than willing to help fellow alchemists.
Hi Rae,
Thank you for your generous offer to those who wish to attempt the lab work. I wish I could pursue it, but I have limited lab space and only the basic distillation equipment. I'm very interested in what type of furnace you use for your work?
Thanks
Illen
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Illen A. Cluf wrote:raedotted wrote:I am familiar enough with the theory of alchemy to lead you on the right track. I won’t disclose the methods and I'm leaving out some details, as they must remain concealed from the puffers who wish to commercialize these preparations. However, I can provide direction to those who are interested. Write me privately if you would like to learn more. I am more than willing to help fellow alchemists.
Hi Rae,
Thank you for your generous offer to those who wish to attempt the lab work. I wish I could pursue it, but I have limited lab space and only the basic distillation equipment. I'm very interested in what type of furnace you use for your work?
Thanks
Illen
Hi Illen,
I don't use a furnace for the Acetate Path, although you can. I use a hotplate that reaches about 500°C, and a saucepan filled with clean sand. If you were to use a furnace I would suggest making it from some inexpensive fire brick, put a metal grate on the bottom, and use coals or heat the bottom with a gas torch. In the instance a furnace is used, it is necessary to make a clay helmet, to direct the vapors into the recieving flasks. See the drawing below for an idea of how the furnace should look. This is from John French's Art of Distillation:
A large assay crucible is placed into the furnace containing the acetate salts, and covered with a clay helmet. The clay helmet has a hollow tube built into it which connects to the cooled receiver via a condenser. The remaining vapors are sent to a third vessel and finally led outside.
Using a hotplate (much simpler):
The flask is immersed 3/4 of the way in sand contained in a saucepan. The distillation flask is led to a condenser which connects to the second flask. The second flask is double headed and immersed in an ice bath. The second neck connects to a third flask (also double headed) which passes the volatile vapors through water via a glass tube. From there the vapors leave the third flask through it's second neck into a fourth flask (also double headed) containing charcoal. From there a plastic tube is led outside to release any remaining vapors.
After bubbling through the water any toxic fumes are passed through charcoal in the fourth flask. From there a plastic tube can be lead to the outside. This is the safest method I have found. Don't forget to prepare your materials philosophically!
-Rae
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raedotted wrote:I use a hotplate that reaches about 500°C, and a saucepan filled with clean sand.
Thanks Rae. I didn't realize that a hotplate could be used for that process. The ones I have seen do not quite reach that temperature, and do not hold close to that temperature very well. Once it reaches close to that temperature, it will click off and drop about 50 degrees or so before coming back on again, making the process very frustrating. The one you are using must be very good quality.
Illen
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Hotplate
Illen A. Cluf wrote:raedotted wrote:I use a hotplate that reaches about 500°C, and a saucepan filled with clean sand.
Thanks Rae. I didn't realize that a hotplate could be used for that process. The ones I have seen do not quite reach that temperature, and do not hold close to that temperature very well. Once it reaches close to that temperature, it will click off and drop about 50 degrees or so before coming back on again, making the process very frustrating. The one you are using must be very good quality.
Illen
Hi Illen,
I use specifically a Cast Iron Top Hot Plate, Remote control RC1900 model I bought for about $280 from Lab Depot Inc. They have a website by the same name where you can find this hotplate. It reaches 480°C maximum, and because it's cast iron you can use it with glass or metal vessels. You are probably thinking, "But you said 500°C?" and yes this is true, I did say that. Keep in mind however, the sandbath will absorb more heat.
Rae
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raedotted wrote:Hi Illen,
I use specifically a Cast Iron Top Hot Plate, Remote control RC1900 model I bought for about $280 from Lab Depot Inc. They have a website by the same name where you can find this hotplate. It reaches 480°C maximum, and because it's cast iron you can use it with glass or metal vessels. You are probably thinking, "But you said 500°C?" and yes this is true, I did say that. Keep in mind however, the sandbath will absorb more heat.
Rae
Hi Rae,
Merry Christmas!
That indeed seems to be a sophisticated hotplate. However, if the maximum temperature of the hotplate is 480°C I stil don't see how, even with a sandbath (which only absorbs the given heat), the temperature could exceed this amount. Do you know how much the temperature of this hotplate fluctuates when maintaining the temperature?
Thanks,
Illen
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There are cheap hot plates (used usually for coffee making) which have two or three "scales" and they keep the temp steady, there is no on-off because they don't have thermostat. If you connect a 1000W lighting dimmer you can control the temp precisely and fairly cheaply.
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Illen A. Cluf wrote:
Hi Rae,
Merry Christmas!
That indeed seems to be a sophisticated hotplate. However, if the maximum temperature of the hotplate is 480°C I stil don't see how, even with a sandbath (which only absorbs the given heat), the temperature could exceed this amount. Do you know how much the temperature of this hotplate fluctuates when maintaining the temperature?
Thanks,
Illen
Hi Illen,
Well you are correct actually. The temperature doesn't exceed 485°C in the sandbath. The temp fluctuates +5/-5°C. However, the acetate doesn't have to absolutely reach 500°C to distill over in most cases. Sometimes it will require heats up to 700°C, however I haven't encountered that problem yet.
Rae
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theFool wrote:There are cheap hot plates (used usually for coffee making) which have two or three "scales" and they keep the temp steady, there is no on-off because they don't have thermostat. If you connect a 1000W lighting dimmer you can control the temp precisely and fairly cheaply.
Thank you "theFool". I have a couple of inexpensive hotplates, and I can try that solution.
Illen
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Re: Dry Distillation of Acetate Salts
raedotted wrote: Well you are correct actually. The temperature doesn't exceed 485°C in the sandbath. The temp fluctuates +5/-5°C. However, the acetate doesn't have to absolutely reach 500°C to distill over in most cases. Sometimes it will require heats up to 700°C, however I haven't encountered that problem yet.
The extra few degrees would help, unless the temperature can remain fairly constant. I did a lead acetate distillation with a friend, and just as the distillate was starting to come over (about 480 C) the hotplate would shut off and the temperature would drop to about 425 C before kicking in again. It took a long time to receive any signficiant amount of the distillate. If we could have kept the temperature steady at about 490 C, I think it would have been much more productive. We did wrap the flask with insulating wool so that the temperature wouldn't drop too much between the hotplate shut-offs, and that did help somewhat.
Illen
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Re: Dry Distillation of Acetate Salts
Illen A. Cluf wrote:I did a lead acetate distillation with a friend, and just as the distillate was starting to come over.......
Could you please tell me what treatise you are working from so I can better understand this discussion?
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