Regulus (chemistry)

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As Regulus (from Latin .: regulus = less King) is called (obsolete) a from the metal compounds (eg. As oxides , sulfides ) under the slag or flux molten at high temperature, usually by reduction, irregularly shaped Rohmetallklumpen. This can then be used for further processing.

At the same time, Regulus is also the name for solid metal in contrast to mineralized metal. In the old Scheidekunst liberated metal was so from all contamination as regulinisch called, according to one called the antimony antimonii Regulus , the pure magnesium Regulus Magnesii etc.

See also

literature

  • Ruth Küfer u. a .: Large foreign dictionary . VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1977.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brockhaus ABC Chemie , VEB FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1965, p. 1195.
  2. ↑ Otto-Albrecht Neumüller (Ed.): Römpps Chemie-Lexikon. Volume 5: Pl-S. 8th revised and expanded edition. Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-440-04515-3 , p. 3541.
  3. ^ Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic Encyclopedia . Vol. 121, 1812, p. 660.