[Shard] - Sosaria
[Type] - Arcane
[Book] - Red - 20 pages

[Title] - Creation Of Acids

[Author] - Xorph



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-Introduction-

In spite of the
caution required to
deal with them, acids
are also a precious set
of ingredients for
many different usages

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: medicines, catalyzers,
corrosives, and much
more. They have very
useful chemical
properties and for the
experienced alchemist,
they're very dangerous
friends to always

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watch for.

-Principles-

Acids are active
alchemical liquids
which have the ability
to interact with other

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matters, changing
their properties and
creating, in the
reaction, new residues.
Therefore, they are an
essential tool for the
alchemist to obtain
unnatural matters

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from selected basic
ingredients.
Acids especially
interact with some
matters while they do
not change some
others. They may
react with the residue


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of the reaction itself,
provoking a chain
effect, which may be
slow or very violent.
That makes acid
dangerous to handle,
and more than one
laboratory blew up into

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smoke because of an
incautious
manipulation.

-Obtaining Acids-

Many natural and
unsuspected matters

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contain acids in
various proportions,
but the most effective
way to produce it, in
usable quantities, goes
through using gas and
dissolving in water.
As a matter of fact,

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the air that we
breathe does not
contain only oxygen,
but also small
quantities of rare gas.
In itself, those gas do
not have particular
properties, but after

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being dissolved in
water, they can be
chemically manipulated.
A common way to
separate interesting
gas from undesired
residues is to take
advantage of their

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different way to react
to catalyzing
processes, such as a
simple increase of
temperature.

Once the gas, meaning
the desired elements to


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create the acid, are in
shape of a liquid, one
has to find, through
experience, the matter
that will start to
react with it. As a
matter of fact, there
will be two, at least,

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products from the
reaction, and the aim
is to obtain one active
element, the acid, and
inactive residues,
altered ingredients
which became unable to
interact anymore with

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the acid.

Since acid is an
active, and corrosive
liquid, it will attempt
to eternally continue
the initial reaction,
until it meets an end,

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i.e. until the acid has
been itself totally
transformed into
inactive residue.

-Natural Acids-

In addition with

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chemically-made acids,
as described above,
various acids can be
found, active or
temporarily asleep, in
nature, and especially
in the organs or the
secretions of animals.

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The acid elemental is
one of them. Due to
its high dangerosity,
the careful alchemist
should rather consider
capturing slimes,
available in large
quantities. Slime's


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secretion is however
not only an acid, but
a mix of weak poison
(psychotropic acid) and
various organic
elements. Therefore,
the collected samples
of slimic acid must be

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purified in order to be
used in alchemy.