[HN Gopher] Alchemy and the Laboratory (2015)
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       Alchemy and the Laboratory (2015)
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2021-09-06 20:11 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | dr_dshiv wrote:
       | What was up with the philosopher's stone? That never made any
       | sense to me.
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       | And to think this text from 1456 was roughly 200 years before the
       | founding of the Royal Society (including the alchemists Boyle and
       | Hooke)
        
         | dr_dshiv wrote:
         | Ok, here is a fascinating source for consideration:
         | https://hekint.org/2020/08/04/the-philosophers-stone-history...
         | 
         | Interesting to hear about the medical properties of colloidal
         | gold. More on Wikipedia:
         | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloidal_gold
        
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