Ingredients

An ingredient is a substance that forms part of a mixture. For example, in cooking, recipes specify which ingredients are used to prepare a specific dish. 
Ingredients are commonly differentiated in their finality. The most common distinction is whether an ingredient is used for alchemy or for cooking. 
Determining which one is which is determined through edimancy; tasting the ingredient and analyzing its applications. 
== Active effects ==
Dalmer alchemical science has advanced to the point that they can determine the active effects of ingredients and as such create recipes and formula that focus on specific effects. 
Many commercial products contain secret ingredients that are purported to make them better or give them certain special effects. 
In the alchemical industry, an active ingredient is that part of a formulation that yields the effect expected by the customer.
Imperial laws usually require products to display a list of ingredients, and specifically require that certain active effects be listed.
== Purification ==
Alchemical Purification is the removal of unwanted effects from an ingredient. this does not make the active effect any stronger in relation to its mass, but instead concentrates it. 
Cooking pots often purify ingredients as a feature, meaning its most potent feature will be brought forth during the cooking or brewing process and the other will disappear. 
Alchemy stations lack this feature, meaning resulting solutions will contain all the common effects found in the ingredients used, for better or for worse.
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