Reconstructing Indian Alchemy: Argentifaction (making silver)

In this series, we recreate recipes from a 16th-century Indian alchemical treatise, the Rasaprakāśasudhākara (The Nectar Mine Light on Mercury). In its eleventh chapter, this text describes the making of alchemical gold and silver, pearls and coral. This experiment focusses on a recipe for making silver, using copper, brass, bronze, orpiment, and silver. See the accompanying blog post here: http://ayuryog.org/blog/argentifactio... A collaboration of AyurYog (ayuryog.org) and neterapublishing (neterapublishing.com). This project was made possible through funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No.639363.