King's yellow – formed by mixing orpiment with white arsenic.

Luna cornea – silver chloride, formed by heating horn silver till it liquefies and then cooling.

Horn Silver/ Argentum Cornu – a weathered form of chlorargyrite, an ore of silver chloride.A yellow pigment for glass and porcelain. Glass of antimony – impure antimony tetroxide, SbO 4 formed by roasting stibnite.– an unstable gold carbonate formed by precipitation by potash from gold dissolved in aqua regia.– gold hydrazide, formed by adding ammonia to the auric hydroxide.Fulminating gold – a number of gold based explosives which 'fulminate', or detonate easily.Fulminating silver – principally, silver nitride, formed by dissolving silver(I) oxide in ammonia.Fool's gold – a mineral, iron disulfide or pyrite can form oil of vitriol on contact with water and air.Flowers of antimony – antimony trioxide, formed by roasting stibnite at high temperature and condensing the white fumes that form.Dutch White – a pigment, formed from one part of white lead to three of barium sulfate.Cinnabar/ Vermilion – refers to several substances, among them: mercury(II) sulfide (HgS), or native vermilion (the common ore of mercury).Chrome yellow/ Paris Yellow/ Leipzig Yellow – lead chromate, PbCrO 4.

Chrome red – basic lead chromate – PbCrO 4+PbO.

Chrome orange – chrome yellow and chrome red.

Chrome green – chromic oxide and cobalt oxide.

Chalk – a rock composed of porous biogenic calcium carbonate.

Calx – calcium oxide was also used to refer to other metal oxides.

The crust formed on the lid was ground to powder and boiled with water to remove the calomel.

Calomel/ Horn Quicksilver/ horn mercury – mercury(I) chloride, a very poisonous purgative formed by subliming a mixture of mercuric chloride and metallic mercury, triturated in a mortar and heated in an iron pot.

Cadmia/Tuttia/ Tutty – probably zinc carbonate.

Borax – sodium borate was also used to refer to other related minerals.

Bluestone – mineral form of copper(II) sulfate pentahydrate, also called blue vitriol.

Tin/ Stannum – associated with Jupiter.

Silver/ Argentum – associated with the Moon.

Quicksilver/ Hydrargyrum – associated with Mercury.

Lead/ Plumbum – associated with Saturn.

Gold/ Aurum – associated with the Sun.

Copper/ Cuprum – associated with Venus.

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Milk alchemistry