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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 4 1 2 3 4 Re: Alkahest storage #79723 09/19/02 10:30 AM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK D dxb Pooh-Bah dxb Pooh-Bah D Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK I guess once a universal solvent had caused something to dissolve what would be left would be a solution of the solvent plus whatever had dissolved in it. So it would no longer be the universal solvent it once was. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Alkahest #79724 09/21/02 01:45 AM Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 85 Springfield, MA, USA S Seian journeyman Seian journeyman S Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 85 Springfield, MA, USA Thanks for the welcome back. I just recently got DSL, so I'm actually able to get the posts to load within a reasonable time (instead of ten responses in a half hour, for example). Ali Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Aside: thiotimoline and turbos #79725 09/21/02 04:18 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,535 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,535 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA see also http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=42958 . Thanks, Shona, for the definitive reference. :-) http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/Asimov/Stories/Story062.html Edit - Now that I've looked more closely it's a little disappointing to find it isn't the actual text of the story. Nice bibiography, though. Speaking of actual text, though, I did find this little gem, originally published by Arthur D. Little Company, about "The Turbo-encabulator in Industry." Fans of thiotimoline may find it also to be of interest... http://www.nelp.navy.mil/turboencabulator.htm Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Aside: thiotimoline #79726 09/21/02 04:23 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass <mumble> ... chopped liver ... <grumble> Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Alkahest storage #79727 09/21/02 04:30 PM Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 W wordminstrel enthusiast wordminstrel enthusiast W Joined: Oct 2001 Posts: 247 Well, a universal solvent would be the ultimate paradox, wouldn't it?...since it would also have to dissolve itself. Am I missing something here? If "alchemy" is the 'science' of turning (transmuting) lead into gold (or some other base metal into precious metal), wouldn't an "Alkahest" simply be the solvent which effectuated that particular transmutation? In other words, an "Alkahest" would be a solvent only for the metals it acted upon transmutationally. It follows that an "Alkahest" could be collected in a glass beaker, a leather pouch, or, perhaps, even a metal container which happens to be all base metal or all precious metal, but not both. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter other transmutations #79728 09/21/02 04:32 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,535 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,535 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA chopped liver Sorry, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Alkahest storage #79729 09/21/02 04:35 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass alkahest is not directly related to alchemy per se: first used in med.L. by Paracelsus, and believed to have been arbitrarily invented by him with a form simulating Arabic. Used in the same forms in most of the European languages. so the alkahest is the universal solvent imagined by the alchemists. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Alkahest storage #79730 09/21/02 04:40 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh OP Carpal Tunnel OP wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 "Well, a universal solvent would be the ultimate paradox, wouldn't it?...since it would also have to dissolve itself. " A prime proposition of alchemy was "similia similibus solvuntur". As corollary, ipsa ipsem solvitur'. Don't bother trying to parse my Latin, it is imparsible. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Alkahest storage #79731 09/21/02 07:31 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 508 Metro Detroit (MI) N nancyk addict nancyk addict N Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 508 Metro Detroit (MI) it is imparsible Nice one, Dr. Bill! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Aside: thiotimoline and turbos #79732 09/21/02 08:17 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Speaking of old Isaac: http://world.honda.com/robot/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 4 1 2 3 4 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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