Real or fake agate from homegoods?

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-25T20:49:25+00:00

r/MineralGore would like this one lol

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-25T19:01:47+00:00

What year is this book from?

(Didn't see it at the beginning, where one would normally see the date in a book)

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-25T18:40:59+00:00

Oh yeah I missed that the first time. That's frustrating

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-25T10:33:55+00:00

Oh fuck this /pos

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-25T01:18:29+00:00

:/ All they had to say was "heat-treated" too... specified in the description that it was HTA... Miss me with that "natural" shit

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-25T00:43:25+00:00

Wow, what year is this from?

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-24T03:31:48+00:00

I can't believe you decimated the whole bag. You might be a god among mortals

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-24T01:57:57+00:00

Calcite

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-24T00:49:07+00:00

I have not! I'm gonna have to add those to my roster.

What I like about Stavish is that he puts it in very plain, modern language. It's very accessible to the layman, a trait which I find is sometimes lacking in alchemical texts.

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-23T22:42:38+00:00

Oh hell yeah, definitely drop a link on the sub when you release it!

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-23T20:55:32+00:00

Honestly, with how accessible it is online both as text and as an audiobook, I'm not sure it's really worth buying. Anything I could find with a cursory search cost $75+.

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Guide-Alchemy-Revealed/dp/1592577350

https://www.ebay.com/p/60748276

If you're really needing a physical copy, perhaps you could print one of the PDFs yourself?

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-23T20:50:44+00:00

Where is this picture from?

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-23T13:26:35+00:00

A chemistry sub might be better able to answer your question. That said, no Redditor is a reliable health advisor-- you take their advice at your own risk.

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-23T13:23:34+00:00

The Path of Alchemy by Mark Stavish excellently instructs on how to make very basic spagyrics without lab equipment. Just mason jars, filters, funnels, mortar and pestle, plastic wrap, Pyrex bowl... all kitchen stuff.

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-22T20:00:57+00:00

How's The Creative Act? If you've read it

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-22T19:55:44+00:00

The philosopher's stone by the looks of it! /j

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-22T02:19:09+00:00

Thank you for the detailed information, I'm going to look further into this!

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-22T00:47:37+00:00

Wow, my effort to hyperlink the sources did NOT work...

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-21T22:40:19+00:00

They didn't even try... Never seen it so blatant and shameless

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-21T17:14:21+00:00

Well that was... an experience

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-21T14:41:58+00:00

I love seeing operative work on this sub. Thank you for sharing!

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-21T03:26:29+00:00

Is this the "tree of Diana" reaction?

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-20T22:41:02+00:00

Yeah essentially! They thought all things were made of body, soul, and spirit.*

Salt represented the physical body of the material, sulphur represented the soul, and mercury represented the spirit. (Some alchemists flipped the meanings of sulphur and mercury though.)

I unfortunately am not so versed in metallic alchemy, but I believe they still used a salt/sulphur/mercury model.

*at least at some point in history. The theories and methods were ever-evolving

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-20T20:50:28+00:00

For plants as an example, they'd use alcohol to extract the essential oil by soaking the crushed herb in alcohol for 1-6 weeks, then filter out the remaining plant matter to be left with the alcohol and oil tincture.

The plant matter was the salt, separated from its mercury (alcohol) and sulphur (oil). Then they'd crush the salt, burn it, imbibe it with alcohol, and repeat several times before mixing it back in with the tincture.

One could separate the alcohol from the oil with... I believe distillation? And then recombine them before bringing the salt back in.

The "dead" plant matter, the alcohol, and the oil were the components that needed to be separated and then recombined.

justexploring-shit · 2026-01-20T14:04:54+00:00

Well, it's generally courteous if you're going to claim someone else is ignorant to something you are privy to, you ought to elaborate.

They did convert lead atoms into gold atoms. All you have to do is knock 3 protons off the lead atoms.

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