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3:21 · This sign for cinis, ash, was used in alchemy during the seventeenth century. Note its graphic similarity to 03:24, the sign for lightning below in this group, and to the above sign for potash.
    In eighteenth-century chemistry this sign could mean combustion and incinerare, or burn.

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