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🜶 U+1F736, 🜶 ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR ALKALI ← 🜵 [U+1F735] Alchemical Symbols 🜷 → [U+1F737]

Translingual

Alternative forms

The symbol varies as an inverted ⟨♉︎⟩ Taurus. That is the form attested in Bergman, where an upright Taurus is the symbol for bismuth.

Symbol

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1. (archaic, alchemy) alkali, sal alkali (probably sodium or potassium hydroxide, NaOH or KOH).

   Synonym: 🜷,

2. (obsolete, alchemy) cobalt (in the works of Torbern Bergman)