AZOTH

Azoth

Azoth, was considered to be a universal medicine or universal solvent sought in alchemy . Its symbol was the Caduceus and so the term, which being originally a term for an occult formula sought by alchemists much like the philosopher's stone, became a poetic word for the element mercury, the name is Medieval Latin, an alteration of azoc being originally derived from Arabic al-zā'būq "the mercury".

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azoth

Noun

  1. The first principle of metals, that is, mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them.
  2. The universal remedy of Paracelsus.


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