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🝋 U+1F74B, 🝋
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR POWDER
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[U+1F74A]
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  1. (alchemy, archaic) powder, pulvis

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pulvis m (genitive pulveris); third declension

  1. (alchemy) Abbreviation of pulvis (powder).
    • 1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum, page 361:
      Spiritus 🜿ri, eſt ʟiquor iſte, qui ex 🜿ro 🝋ſato per 🝭tam cum 🝆 deſtillatur.
      Spirit of tartar is that liquid which is distilled from powdered tartar using a retort with oil.