<p>bah, what are atoms? Foolish. You just need to combine sulphur, mercury, and salt in a hermetic vase as soon as the Goat has chased the fish from the skies, until they form the philosopher’s stone (under immense heat of course), which will enable you to turn any metal’s color to golden, making it Gold</p>
<p>So I get a thermometer, some medicine, and some salt, throw it into AP Chem where there will surely be an explosion within the next week, retrieve the pieces of the stone, and start touching all my enemies a la Midas?</p>
<p>Have you ever read a book called The Trumpeter of Krakow? There’s a vivid description of “aqua phosphorata” in there. 8D</p>
<p>Is it about Sendivogius? He is the only Polish alchemist I know of :b</p>
<p>No, it’s a mostly fictional children’s book 
It’s actually pretty good.</p>
<p>lol someday I will go back to children’s books, perhaps. 21 Balloons was actually quite interesting back in the day</p>
<p>I simply associate alchemy-by-chemicals with that particular book. Its descriptions are quite intriguing, involving several people falling down a rickety staircase, a magical (?) crystal, and flame of diverse colors. Later the story takes a temporary dark turn, with one kidnapping, one heroic break-in, hypnotism, and a little too much sulfur being added to a flammable mixture.</p>
<p>Oh my god! Sulphur is the flammable component of metal :OOOO AMHAPL!!!@@!</p>
<p>Noooooooo…the point was NOT to add so much sulfur (actually it was Indian niter; just looked it up). Anyways it was just what he was seeing in the crystal–which was a reflection of his own “fevered imagination,” and, his mental faculties being slightly less than they might ordinarily have been as he was under the influence of the evil hypnotist, his “philosopher’s stone” was a little more combustible than might have been wished for.</p>
<p>Oh dear. Well, at least he could make it. I’ve heard that the philosopher’s stone can go unperceived by those not learned in astrology</p>
<p>He didn’t make it…he set a quarter of Krakow on fire. The recipe was false.</p>
<p>oh no! Perhaps he accidentally followed Roger Bacon’s gunpowder amalgam.</p>
<p>btw, is it just me, or is the last name “Bacon” like automatic success:</p>
<p>Roger Bacon - famous monk and philosopher
Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam - Even more famous philosopher and essayist
Francis Bacon - Irish creepy painter
Kevin Bacon - bad actor</p>
<p>:confused: bad actor=creepy painter=automatic success?</p>
<p>They have loads of cash.</p>
<p>Well maybe not Irish Francis Bacon, but he’s famous and stuff
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting_(1946[/url])”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting_(1946)</a></p>
<p>Loads of cash?</p>
<p>I’ll think myself lucky if I escape college with two/three degrees and without any loans or permanent sicknesses.</p>
<p>^ Paint meat things</p>
<p>Vegetarian! >:O</p>
<p>Will probably have to go in <5 minutes.</p>
<p>noooooo they’ll post mean things again! :O</p>
<p>I think they’re all staring at their screens in collective apoplexy. Lol…<em>likes the phrase “collective apoplexy”</em></p>
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<p>Yay threadjacking! Speaking of chemistry, get some calcium chloride, put it on top of ice, then add a bit of water. The ice just gets eaten away so quickly. It’s awesome.</p>
<p>Or with iron(III) chloride…1.3x the ions==>quicker action :)</p>