The metals of the alchemical laboratory, each linked in the tradition to a planet and treated as a body that could be purified, combined into alloys, calcined or transmuted. Gold, silver, copper, iron, tin and lead were worked in the furnace and recorded in recipe books across the medieval and early modern periods. Their names often double as planetary and divine symbols in alchemical writing. Members placed here so far include Tin, Iron, Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper.
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Tin (Wikipedia)
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A metallic-gray metal, tin is soft enough to be cut with little force, and a bar of tin can be bent by hand with little effort.
Iron (Wikipedia)
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It is a metal that belongs to the first transition series and group 8 of the periodic table.
Silver (Wikipedia)
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A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity and reflectivity of any metal.
Lead (Wikipedia)
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It is a heavy metal, denser than most common materials.
Gold (Wikipedia)
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In its pure form, it is a bright-metallic-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal.
Copper (Wikipedia)
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It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity.
Amalgam (chemistry) (Wikipedia)
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An amalgam is an alloy of mercury with another metal.
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