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as applied to the wants of mankind. There
are 7 metals, 7 planets and 7 days of the
week, known to the ancients as followers
within their symbols.

Sun Sunday Gold, Moon Monday Silver, Mars iron
Mercury Mercury.
Venus Copper
Jupiter Tin, Saturn Saturday lead.

Iron has the property of being welded in consequence of its becoming
soft at a temperature below that which it melts, But to join other
metals one must take a thick metal and solder them, this union is called
an alloy. The reduction of the metals is called Metallinge, this
is generally performed by heating the oxide with charcoal, the affinity
of the latter for oxygen at a high temperature being greater than that
of the metal. To get the metallic oxide in close contact
with the carbon mix in fine powder with oil apply a heat
and the volatile portion passes off and leaves a coat of Carbon
around each particle; Acids are called salt radicals the
substances with which the acids combine are called Basile or base.

Gold is always in a metallic state, When [in rocks or sand?]