🝥

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

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 🝩, 🝦

Etymology

Manuscript abbreviation of ⟨🝩⟩

Symbol

🝥

1. (obsolete, alchemy) an abbreviated alchemical symbol for crucible, tigillum

   Synonyms: 🝧, 🝨, 🜊

English

Noun

🝥

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.