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🜍 U+1F70D, 🜍 ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR SULFUR ← 🜌 [U+1F70C] Alchemical Symbols 🜎 → [U+1F70E]

Translingual

Etymology

Possibly ⟨🜂⟩ fire plus ⟨🜊⟩ crucible

Symbol

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1. (alchemy, archaic) sulphur/sulfur, brimstone
2. (astronomy, obsolete) 19th-century typographic variant of ⟨⚴⟩, the symbol for asteroid (2) Pallas
3. (astrology) cardinal zodiacal modality

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Derived terms

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English

Noun

🜍 (plural 🜍rs)

1. (alchemy) Abbreviation of sulphur.
   • c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 250:

     Edward he sayth that the Philosophers doe write of two 🜍rs & to them two ☿es joyned, & these are Red most pure & white.

Latin

Noun

🜍 n sg (genitive 🜍is); third declension

1. (alchemy) Abbreviation of sulphur.
   • c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 204:

     Nota quoque, quod ☿ ex 🜵 non fit sine sequestratione 🜍is Combustibilis Copiosi, Ergo & hoc ad Solificationem & Lunificationem sequestrari convenit.

     Note also that mercury is not made from regulus without the separation of copious combustible sulfur; therefore, it is fitting for solifaction and lunifaction for this sulfur to be removed.

   • 1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin–German and German–Latin], page 69:

     Cinnabaris Philoſophorum, 🝞atur ex 🜍re ♁nii cum ☿rio mixto ſepties

     Philosophers' cinnabar is sublimated from sulfur of antimony mixed with mercury seven times

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	🜍	🜍a
genitive	🜍is	🜍um
dative	🜍ī	🜍ibus
accusative	🜍	🜍a
ablative	🜍e	🜍ibus
vocative	🜍	🜍a

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	🜍	🜍ra
genitive	🜍ris	🜍rum
dative	🜍rī	🜍ribus
accusative	🜍	🜍ra
ablative	🜍re	🜍ribus
vocative	🜍	🜍ra