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The point in alchemy is to get the gold, one starts out with, precipitated in an extremely fine form. This is as said before, done with potash in an aqueous solution. The royal water is only to be just neutralized with the alkaline potash solution. The liquid is neutral, when no more carbon dioxide fizzes of. After some time and after thorough stirring with a galss rod one can add a little acetic acid to remove excess potash. Gold can also be precipitated with the matter, that is found in the legendary unicorns hornif one can manage to catch one, for it is very shy. Only a virgin could gain power over it, the myths say. These often contain a truth, and in this case the hidden truth is, that from its horn ammonium bicarbonate could be extracted, also called (hjortetaksalt, deer antler salt, hartshorn). The gold is to be precipitated several times after the motto: Solve et coagula- dissolve and solidify. Then it is to be washed many times and left to stand in diluted(with water) wine spirits, until it gradually turns rosy red. The alchemists relate, that the final process, which is also the last solve et coagula, is very lengthy, and that it requires nesting heat. Therefore this stage is shown as a hen, that is laying on eggs. The flask is to be hermetically sealed, as it is called after the sage Hermes Trismegistus. And no light may enter the vessel, so one has to find a way of shielding it. This can in practice be done with tin foil (tr.: now a days its aluminium foil ?), that is wrapped around the flask. The flask itself must be so large, that the gold mass only takes up the bottom of it, because there must be room enough for the vapours, the bird, that during the heating begin to ascend. Here we have a principle, that resembles what takes place in the alchemical flask. In this there might take place- as an effect of the long heating time- a nuclear fusion, and the alchemists say it happens at nesting heat. In reality this heat is more like the temperature of the water that runs through a radiator, around 70-80 degrees Celsius. The vapours in the flask give of something to the gold and thereby loose their power. The bird drops to the ground and disappears