What is Alchemy?
Development of Alchemy
Tools for Alchemy
Contributions to Alchemist to Modern Science
Major Problems with the work of Alchemists
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Where did the word Alchemy come from?
From the Arabic word "Al-Kimia"meaning "the art of transformation"
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Who created the elemental system used in medieval alchemy?
Jabir ibn Hayyan
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What was the tool that was used to distill and chemically analyze many chemical substances, composed lapidaries (cutter, engraver of stones), distinguished between alkalis and acids, and manufactured hundreds of drugs?
An alembic
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Paracelsus discovered ________ (mercuric sulfide) for medicinal pruposes
cinnabar
100
Pope John XXII in 1317 ordered all alchemists to leave France for __________________________
What is making counterfeit money
200
Fill in the Blank: It was concerned particularly with attempts to change metals into gold or to find a __________ (something that is able to dissolve everything else)
Universal Elixir
200
What were the four Aristotelian elements that Jabir Ibn Hayyan use?
Air Water Earth and Fire
200
Who built the alembic? (Spelling counts)
Jabir ibn Hayyan
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Paracelsus discovered __________ (mixture of sulfur, charcoal and saltpeter) used for making gun powder
Potassium Nitrate
200
A law passed in England in 1403 which made the ___________________ punishable by death
What is the "multiplication of metals"
300
What were Alchemy and Chemistry thought to be, before the eighteenth century?
They were thought to be the same thing
300
FILL IN THE BLANK: _______ characterizes the principle of combustibility; The Stone that Burns
SULFUR
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Mercury included the _______________, so that when i left in smoke the wood fell apart.
cohesive principle
300
Paracelsus developed chemical process of distillation, ______ and crystallization
filteration
300
Irrelevant information included by alchemists in their method
What is the timing of the tides or the phases of the moon
400
What does the word "Chymistry" describe?
The word Chymistry was used to describe the mixture of alchemy and chemistry
400
FILL IN THE BLANK: ___________ characterizes the principle of metallic properties
MERCURY
400
Smoke described the _______________ , the heat-giving flames described flammability (sulfur), and the remnant ash described solidity(salt).
Volatility
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Paracelsus discovered ______, ___________, _________, __________
alcohol, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid
400
Alchemists have no agreed-upon scientific method for ______________
What is making experiments reproducible
500
What is the Philosopher's stone?
A Substance or a stone that could turn all metals into gold and heal all sicknesses
500
Why do you think the alchemists made their work so hard to understand?
Because gold is so rare... so it won't be valuable if the rare isn't rare anymore.... SUPPLY AND DEMAND :D
500
Paracelsus formed a mixture of alchemy and science in what was to be called ______________ ( study of medicine and physiology in terms of chemistry.
iatrochemistry
500
Paracelsus discovered ______ as well as other new elements.
Phosphorous
500
Alchemists used to conceal the fact that they could not be sure of very much at all
What is the nature of the vocabulary of alchemy
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