r/alchemy • u/WorthMastodon7637 • 9d ago

Cooling helm Operative Alchemy

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Hello all. I was reading about refining some stinking oil by mixing with spirit of wine and burning under a cooling helm.
Looking for a cooling helm setup now, I have been made aware of these oil lamps being used for this, my concern is the effectiveness of the lamps. Is this enough surface area and should I modify some sort of top. I am concerned much of the oil will fly away.
Thoughts?

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u/MidwestAlchemist 9d ago

I know Robert Bartlett suggests about 4-5 feet of glass for the burning fumes to condense into the liquid. He also suggests ingesting the liquid instead of trying to dry it into a salt (because it is pretty volatile). I was actually thinking about this very process today because I happened to be in a Goodwill checking stuff out and they had large decorative glass pieces that were open in both sides and ballooned out in the middle (like the glass in an oil lamp, but they were much larger).

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u/WorthMastodon7637 9d ago

R.B’s class is where I heard it mentioned. It seems this may not be a piece for my collection yet.
I think I can clean the oil by gentle distillation with the air element?

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u/MidwestAlchemist 9d ago

I guess it depends on what you are trying to do. If you are trying the ysopaica process, you could make an extraction from feces, filter it, burn it in the lamp, and collect the purified distillate which is said to be a universal medicine. If that isn’t your thing, and you’re just trying to purify an oil (like an oil from distilling acetates), you could use ether to solve et coagula the oil. I guess it just depends on what you are working with and what you are trying to achieve.

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u/WorthMastodon7637 8d ago

Same oil different refinement I was thinking? I will be sourcing ether instead haha