Meanings
- rareuncountablealchemyThe creation of silver from base metals
Consequently aurifaction and argentifaction became an important component part of alchemy.
1983, Ancient China's Technology and Science, volume 2, Foreign Languages Press, page 2182 more examples
Liu Hsiang failed after years of work to attain the alchemical aim, but by +20 the idea of the 'philosopher's stone', an essential ingredient for aurifaction (and argentifaction), makes its appearance for the first time in a story of Huan Than's.
1970, Joseph Needham, Clerks and Craftsmen in China and the West, CUP Archive, page 284...one was red and referred to aurifaction, the other was white and pertained to argentifaction.
1983, Jerome O. Nriagu, Lead and Lead Poisoning in Antiquity, Wiley, →ISBN, page 58
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