Caput mortuum
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Caput mortuum
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Caput mortuum is a Latin term used in alchemy to signify a useless substance left over from a chemical operation such as sublimation and the epitome of decline and decay. Alchemists represented this residue with a stylized human skull, a literal death's head. The symbol shown on this page was also used in 18th-century chemistry to mean residue, remainder, or residuum. Caput mortuum was also sometimes used to mean crocus metallorum, i.e. brownish-red metallic compounds such as crocus martis, and
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Latin term and symbol used in alchemy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caput_mortuum
date created:
2005-04-07T16:00:16Z
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2024-09-03T01:10:47Z
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