Alchemy Blog

Well, after a second try with the same stuff, the antimony glass failed. Just kept vitrifying back into antimony rather than form the glass....

Almost done roasting the stibnite. When the weather is good (it's raining right now), and I have enough time away from work, I'll ma...

I know I haven't posted in a while; that's cuz I've been busy with a few other things. But I try to do what I can in the lab whe...

My work on the 7 planetary elixirs is done, they're in incubation right now and will be for three months. Right now I'm working on c...

I used horsetail for one of my planetary elixirs, and working with this proved to be most interesting. As you can see from the first image, ...

Went to the local glassblowing store (after I finally found it), bought a length of pyrex glass tubing, had it cut to length, and now my wor...

About a month ago I had ordered a 28mm glass tube from eBay so that I could make myself a thimble for the soxhlet (the plastic one I was usi...