Colors, Pigments, Dyes

the k so let's have a look at Egyptian
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ancient Egyptian alchemy as in alchemy
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or chemistry essentially now this
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alchemy has been I would say perverted
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but that's a separate topic and so what
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we have is how did they make this gold
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had in it when you get gold out of the
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ground it doesn't come out in a you know
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you even when you get these pure gold
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nuggets and actually not pure thought
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you find disease will ancient across the
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ancient world but Egyptian artifacts how
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did they create this gold they had to
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purify it they had to make it they had
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to work of a gold man to understand to
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process it very important theme now it's
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often too said I want some mystery well
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it's actually quite a bit of the legacy
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of this knowledge carried through to
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later alchemical traditions so when they
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speak of alchemy it's usually 15 16th
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17th century the records actually go
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quite back back through to the Arabians
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back fruit well back Mesopotamians back
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to such as Cleopatra of Egypt
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sorry Cleopatra tied a movie alchemists
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not to be confused with Cleopatra at San
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Anthony and Cleopatra but so how did
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they create this goal 12 I had
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metallurgy essentially if I had
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chemistry what we would alchemy the
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source is now another key theme so
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alchemy is not just about metallurgy
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it's not just about medicine it's also
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has a lot to do with colors and so where
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you see these cave / cave paintings
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sorry tomb paintings other paintings the
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color palette that they had and color
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has been a very important theme so royal
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purple
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for instance the Phoenicians who
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basically got rich because they had
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almost a monopoly on purple sacre bleu
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sacred blue so even in the early early
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Christian artists that the connection
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between Mary and blue because blue was
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very expensive now it's very hard you
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can make blue you can make even purples
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but they not they don't last they're not
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strong colors and they don't last over
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time so to make a good quality dye or a
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pigment very important you don't want it
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to
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made away very quickly and you wanted to
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to have an intense color service has
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been dyes and color has actually been a
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big part of the traitor of international
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trade going back to ancient times and so
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how did the Egyptians do this well the
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Egyptians their knowledge was passed on
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to other civilizations and we have great
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Greek and Roman records in the Greeks
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openly discuss about the fact that they
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learnt from previous civilizations so
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the Egyptian color palette the history
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of color and dyes pigments very
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interesting because it has applies to
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glassmaking and to all sorts of themes
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now so how did they get these colors
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well once more we can look back to the
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sources and so book seven chapter seven
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Vitruvius and natural colors and so he
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talks as four colors summer natural
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products found in fixed places and dug
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up here while others are artificial
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compounds on different substances
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treated and mixed in proper proportions
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so as to be equally serviceable they're
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making color this is chemistry this is
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you know industrial chemists are still
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working on cut they're still inventing
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new colors all the time and how to
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create these pigments very important
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theme so red earth now what I want to
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get to is okay so let's look this is a
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typical our chemical chart where we have
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Venus Aphrodite Mars Aries Sun Apollo
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mercury Hermes Moon Luna Jupiter Zeus
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Saturn Kronus which are connected to
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these very important elements over seven
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visible planets these important guides
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and also to the elements being used and
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accessible back at the time so even
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before the Iron Age strictly speaking
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Oliver able to obtain bog iron and
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mediate meteoric iron fur from meteors
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so but before the Iron Age they were
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working with iron and it did have access
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to it I just didn't have access to it on
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an industrial scale but most of these
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metals silver gold tin silver lead
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copper well how did they extract these
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things so well let's begin with mercury
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or Hermes of all folks
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the god of knowledge now weights and
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measures for
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especially the element mercury and how
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it connects especially to things such as
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gold and silver the importance of this
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element now it comes from the ore
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cinnabar which is red Vermillion but
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it's also so in China other ancient
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cultures they were working with cinnabar
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lead our sorry
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mercury Quicksilver and so for instance
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vermilion ink was reserved only for the
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Empress was a very just like Jade
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Emperor was reserved for you know the
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ancient Chinese terms have been found
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where they found smashed Jade priceless
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Jade all over because the the tomb
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robbers didn't take the Jay because they
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were unable to sell it so very Ovie's
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connect now mercury we extract it from
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cinnabar mercury we find our mercury
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pools in pyramids in South America in
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Egypt and why is mercury so important
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especially in liquid mercury why go into
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that because again it's a anyway well it
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has very practical purpose in the
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production of silver and gold especially
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and to create good quality gold and
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silver what will the Chinese what will
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the ancient Mesoamericans gold and
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silver amongst other elements so why is
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mercury so important now I'll show you a
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clip here amalgam so okay why would we
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leave it now mercury amalgam is used in
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two fillings but for instance when
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miners to get the gold dust out of out
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of a pan you can pour mercury in there
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and the mercury will attach the gold and
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silver will attach to the mercury and
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then you can just boil off the mercury
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left with pure gold now mercury as an
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example of an amalgam let's look at this
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gold amalgam okay so this skip a little
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bit forward okay just drop some liquid
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mercury on there and what happens is
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that gold essentially dissolves and and
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becomes part of a mercury amalgam
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Navisworks for silver and others and you
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just well this is how they're how do we
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know that they work like this in the
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ancient time all because the ancients
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left us very nice descriptions of it and
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it's also connects to colors as well so
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Vitruvius we can
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read up on these color systems how they
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were now cinnabar which is mercury the
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raw ore of mercury cinema or Vermillion
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now cinnabar and Oak and Quicksilver and
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he discusses how it's used and how to
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extract it from Bayer the unique
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qualities of it and also hat well
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weights and measures poured it but if
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Quicksilver is poured into a vessel you
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can like the ability how things float on
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mercury now ok for instance if the
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Quicksilver is poured into a vessel and
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a stone weight one hundred pounds is
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laid upon it the stone swims on the
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surface and cannot depress the liquid
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nor break through or separate it if we
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remove one hundred pound weight and put
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on a scruple of gold it will not swim
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but will sink to the bottom of its own
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accord hence it is undeniable but the
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gravity of a substance depends on the
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amount of its weight not on its nature
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now further you go in down in betrayal
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if you can find him talking about water
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displacement and in the eureka moment of
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god now in the names time Archimedes
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Eureka and how this connects when you
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actually read these all the documents
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there are quite advanced very very very
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advanced not in just working and cutting
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stone and lifting stone as well they
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described it in in great detail in great
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detail and but also so colors so now for
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instance when gold for instance in Egypt
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I did in as well but rich Romans would
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weave gold into their garments when the
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gold has been woven into a garment and
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the government becomes warm worn out
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with age so he's no longer respectable
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to use the pieces of cloth are put into
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earthen pots and burned up in a fire
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that burns away the cotton or hemp
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depending on what Fred veil using the
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ashes have been thrown into water and
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Quicksilver added via to this attracts
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all the bits of gold and makes them
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combine with itself or water is then
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poured off and the rest is emptied into
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a cloth and squeezed into the hands
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whereupon the Quicksilver being a liquid
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escapes back through the loose texture
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of a cloth but the gold which has been
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brought together by the squeezing is
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found in a pure state so to recycle the
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gold this is now is
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the same thing we've recalled in on
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electronics this is how one way that
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poisonous mind you you have to be done
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very carefully but the the gold and
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silver and these other rare elements
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will attach to it and then there are
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again other descriptions of how to
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separate these are elements so you might
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get gold and silver it joins to the
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mercury you boil off the mercury when
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you're left with electrum alloy of gold
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and silver and then there are other ways
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of separating it from here as well but
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cinnabar continued I will now return to
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the preparation of a million using
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cinnabar ore of mercury to create
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Vermillion red ink as in the red ink
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which was exclusive to the Chinese
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emperors
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hence it keeps its color perfectly when
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applied to the polish stucco finished of
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clothes apartments get in open apartment
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such as Vera styles and and again just
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the use of now that it goes back to the
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tomb of very Queen at Palenque and the
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use of this red all this keeps you know
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that you can make a red for instance
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another foot but it doesn't keep its
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color it's a it's this brilliant
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long-lasting color reds blues
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now furthermore so now of the essential
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elements such as copper so artificial
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colors again our prison tattoos one of
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the ways they do it they get a candle
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and I will burn and then hold up the
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flame underneath some sort of flat
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surface it will collect the soot and
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then you can make a tattoo ink and
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that's a pretty not it the best way to
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do it but that's one of the ways that
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it's done in prison but I've never been
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in prison mind you I just recently saw
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that on a show about tattoo artists but
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the official color is black so they were
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different you can also get from
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compounds or a different ways of
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beginning it but burnt blue burnt ocher
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now our methods of making blue gore
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discovered in Alexandria and afterwards
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the story is set up for making of it in
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at Polly's has you lowly sorry the
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method obtaining it from
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the substances of which it has been
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found to consist he strange enough sand
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and the flowers of matron obeyed it
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braided together so finally about the
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product is like meal copper copper
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sulfate that's probably if you've done
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the chemistry class in high school
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copper sulfate that blue powder which
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you might you know using gardens as well
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that's copper sulphate copper salt and
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that's blue well that's you know you can
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say has it describes here you can make
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blue from copper as well now you
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wouldn't think copper is is blue because
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it's that sort of not quite Goldy what
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would you call that will let the copper
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II brass bronze each color but you can
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make the alchemy chemistry now white LED
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and so again led like in the when the
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dandies like the French rules for
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instance and around that are you know
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around lowest know they have you seen
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with that very white face and the big
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puffy week
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well that was led that they were using
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to make it so you're gonna make a lead
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weave from white brings is a good way of
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making white from lead now now for
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instance Galena in places such as South
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America and elsewhere you find the
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minerals and it's copper bismuth zinc
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gold and silver but lead as well and
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then you have to separate the elements
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out so we were as Mesoamericans ancient
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Chinese ancient Indians are came up in
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Russia ancient Egyptians they did not
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you couldn't go to a store and just buy
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buy pure elements you had to find the
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ore and then separate your alchemy
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chemistry a trade secrets and bronze
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copper alloys now again so Vitruvius
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link will be in a description but how
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did they make purple marine shellfish
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sure for instance to shirt they would
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use a shell the Phoenicians or
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especially big royal purple still now
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other kings and queens have purple as a
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ceremonial color again back in all going
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back in time so how did they make these
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colors well the trivia is an excellent
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source for this are Herodotus Strabo
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these other ancient writers who actually
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traveled to Egypt
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mesopotamian over and spoke with the
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people in there via the right the
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writings are extant
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they're not and it's at well it's it's
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just interesting that certain
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high-profile alternative history high
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priests I got I have to call it seem to
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get out of a way to to not include this
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information while at the same time
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accusing others of suppressing
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information and blood in blah blah blah
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gotta break that you got to break the
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take the red pill from those vicars
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visible gatekeepers go both ways
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and I'm not in the least offending the
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gatekeepers in the establishment but
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there are gatekeepers in the in the
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alternative and and well I can oh it's
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hard to find really a kind word for them
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because the more you look and the more
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of I broke away and stopped just
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accepting what they say is gospel and
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then you realize well these people have
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been at it for decades why do they not
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why did not discuss these things well
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because it's a problem it's not
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profitable for them there is an industry
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are in going into this and links in the
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description Herodotus Strabo Vitruvius
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plenty other writers who we can
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translate and understand in our modern
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sense unlike hieroglyphs and other forms
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of writing where it's bit more colorful
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and the phraseology is different Latin
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Greek is the root of English and so we
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can understand these things much more
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clearly and there is just a huge amount
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of information in the ancient past
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technologies that is available have a
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good one