[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902) › v2.c32.s3.12 # A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c32.s3.12 A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c32.s3.12 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c32.s3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.s3.12) ∗ The text is not very intelligible. The other ingredients mentioned are tīkshna and kānta, these being varieties of iron; but iron will not amalgamate with mercury. Tīkshna may also mean a kind of saline earth. The old alchemists racked their brains in devising ingenious processes for robbing mercury of its fluidity and imparting to it various colours. Cf. Rasārnava, IX, 2-3, XI, 197-198. \*Vide\* Vol. i, p. 74 and also "The Hindu method of manufacturing calomel."—\*Ibid.\* p. 250. - [Previous: v2.c32.s3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.s3.11) - [Next: v2.c32.s3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.s3.13) - [Up: v2.c32.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.s3) ## Linked texts (1) - [Rasārṇava](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.rasarnava) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.s3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c32.s3.12) · Pramāṇa