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    Kerkring Menstruum

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    The document describes the Kerkring Menstruum, a powerful solvent attributed to Dutch physician Theodore Kerkring. It has various uses for minerals. The menstruum's manufacture is described as a simple process of sublimating salt ammoniac three times to change its color, then combining it with absolute alcohol in a glass jar sealed away from moisture. The mixture is digested for at least a month at 40C before distilling the alcohol off gently three times to produce the final Kerkring Menstruum.

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    The document describes the Kerkring Menstruum, a powerful solvent attributed to Dutch physician Theodore Kerkring. It has various uses for minerals. The menstruum's manufacture is described as a simple process of sublimating salt ammoniac three times to change its color, then combining it with absolute alcohol in a glass jar sealed away from moisture. The mixture is digested for at least a month at 40C before distilling the alcohol off gently three times to produce the final Kerkring Menstruum.

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    The document describes the Kerkring Menstruum, a powerful solvent attributed to Dutch physician Theodore Kerkring. It has various uses for minerals. The menstruum's manufacture is described as a simple process of sublimating salt ammoniac three times to change its color, then combining it with absolute alcohol in a glass jar sealed away from moisture. The mixture is digested for at least a month at 40C before distilling the alcohol off gently three times to produce the final Kerkring Menstruum.

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    The document describes the Kerkring Menstruum, a powerful solvent attributed to Dutch physician Theodore Kerkring. It has various uses for minerals. The menstruum's manufacture is described as a simple process of sublimating salt ammoniac three times to change its color, then combining it with absolute alcohol in a glass jar sealed away from moisture. The mixture is digested for at least a month at 40C before distilling the alcohol off gently three times to produce the final Kerkring Menstruum.

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    Kerkring Menstruum

    This menstruum is a powerful


    one, far stronger than ordinary
    alcohol. It is attributed to the
    Dutch physician Theodore
    Kerkring, and is found in his
    commentaries on Basil
    Valentine's "Triumphal Chariot of
    Antimony." It has a variety of
    uses in the mineral realm.
    It's manufacture is fairly simple.
    Using two corningware or
    visionware casserole baking
    dishes over electric or gas heat, sublimate Salt Ammoniac (the salt known as
    ammonium chloride) three times. The sublimated crystals will take on a pale
    yellow colour after the first sublimated, and eventually turn yellow-orange, even
    red in some areas. Store these crystals in a glass jar sealed away from moisture.
    Obtain some absolute alcohol as instructed in an earlier section, preferably from
    red wine, and combine them during the New Moon, in the proportion of roughly
    four parts sal ammoniac to nine or ten parts alcohol. Seal them both in a glass jar
    and digest at around 40C for at least a month.
    After the month is up, distill off the alcohol very gently to near dryness. Collect
    the distillate and then distill again two more times. This is the Kerkring
    Menstruum.

    James Collins

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