page_title: Alchemical symbol
section_title: Alchemical compounds
hierarchical_section_title: Alchemical symbol / Alchemical compounds
caption_attribution_description: "A Table of Mediaeval Alchemical Symbols" from Basil Valentine’s The Last Will and Testament, 1670 ce.
context_page_description: Alchemical symbols, originally devised as part of alchemy, were used to denote some elements and some compounds until the 18th century. Although notation like this was mostly standardized, style and symbol varied between alchemists, so this page lists the most common.
context_section_description: Sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride) 🜹 *
  Aqua fortis (nitric acid) 🜅 A.F.
  Aqua regia (nitro-hydrochloric acid) 🜆 A.R.
  Spirit of wine (concentrated ethanol; also called aqua vitae) 🜈 S.V.
  Amalgam (alloys of a metal and mercury) 🝛
  Cinnabar (mercury sulfide) 🜓
  Vitriol (sulfates) 🜖
caption: A table of alchemical symbols from Basil Valentine's The Last Will and Testament, 1670
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