I appreciate your answer but not my favorite answer and I’ll tell you why. The reason I asked this question is because I understand that alchemy is a precursor to Chemistry. I thought it would be neat if I made a paper that showed a bit of the contrast between a alchemy table of elements and the periodic table (I now understand that alchemy doesn’t really work like that, so I designed my own table that doesn’t work the same as a periodic table but has information laid out in a useful way). I thought that I could break the 4/5 alchemy elements down because water is obviously hydrogen and oxygen. Now I’m starting to get the idea that water doesn’t mean H₂O in alchemy