---
title: "Whitening of Water, Through Which Arsenic and Sandarac are Whitened"
title_greek: "Λεύκωσις ὕδατος, δι’ οὗ λευκαίνεται οἰκονομούμενον"
author: Alchemist I
eul_wid: rrg-ab
eul_aid: rrg
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/alchemist-i-whitening-arsenic-sandarac-rrg-ab"
period: Roman
dialect: Technical Koine
domain: Science
format: Treatise
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Whitening of Water, Through Which Arsenic and Sandarac are Whitened

*Λεύκωσις ὕδατος, δι’ οὗ λευκαίνεται οἰκονομούμενον*

**Author:** Alchemist I

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## Text

### 2.391.(1t)

ΛΕΥΚΩΣΙΣ ΥΔΑΤΟΣ ΔΙ’ ΟΥ ΛΕΥΚΑΙΝΕΤΑΙ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΟΥΜΕΝΟΝ ΤΟ ΑΡΣΕΝΙΚΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΣΑΝΔΑΡΑΧΗ Ὅτε συνενοῦται ὁ χαλκὸς ὀπτούμενος στυπτηρίας σχιστῆς μέρος αʹ, κόμμεως λευκοῦ μέρος αʹ, λύει σὺν τῷ κόμμει ὕδωρ, καὶ ὅταν λύει, γίνεται γλοιοῦ πάχος. Βάλε τὴν στυπτηρίαν ἀπὸ σκεῦος, καὶ κατάχεε τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦ κόμμεως· ὄπτα ἕως οὗ ἀναξηρανθῇ, καὶ ἔχε. Τοῦτο συνλειοῦται τὸ ἀρσενίκην, καὶ ἡ σανδαράχη, καὶ χαλκὸς, καὶ τότε εἰς τὴν ὄπτησιν ἄγει.

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