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What do the symbols on the white stripes website mean?

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What do the symbols on the white stripes website mean?

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Well, there is no “meaning” for them in evidence on the website. I suspect that most (if not all) of them were chosen because—as others have noted—they looked neat. That being said, here is what such symbols *used* to mean—those that I can find—according to various texts on alchemy (chemistry’s forerunner): I’ll start with the line of symbols used in the upper middle of the box; the ones they use for their internal hyperinks. From left to right: 1 – “Tartarus” or “Tartar” — “Found in the lees of wine. Often scraped from the insides of wine barrels. Now known as Potassium Hydrogen Tartrate. When reacted with calcined antimony this formed Tartar Emetic, a powerful emetic used in medicine, though with significant danger, for it is a poisonous substance.” 1a – Another source lists this one as potassium. 2 – “Sulphur” also “Brimstone” — (The specific term is longer, but I can not make it out from the scan of the original on the site I reference.) “Sulfur (Sulphur) is one of the three heaven

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