Congelation Explained

Congelation (from Latin: Latin: congelātiō,) was a term used in medieval and early modern alchemy for the process known today as crystallization.^[1]

In the Latin: Secreta alchymiae ('The Secret of Alchemy') attributed to Khalid ibn Yazid, it is one of "the four principal operations", along with Solution, Albification ('whitening'), and Rubification ('reddening').^[2]

It was one of the twelve alchemical operations involved in the creation of the philosophers' stone as described by Sir George Ripley in his Compound of Alchymy,^[3] as well as by Antoine-Joseph Pernety in his Dictionnaire mytho-hermétique (1758).^[4]

See also

• Alchemical process
• Magnum opus (alchemy)

References

Works cited

• Book: Holmyard . Eric J. . Eric John Holmyard . 1957 . Alchemy . Harmondsworth . Penguin Books . 2080637 .
• Book: Linden . Stanton J. . 2003 . The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton . Cambridge . Cambridge University Press . 0-521-79234-7.

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