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February 2nd, 2006

As the manager of the Institute's website I have been reflecting on how www.circleinstitute.com can use the inherent flexibility of the Internet as media to represent what we are doing in a more spontaneous and ingenuous way. Indeed, the site has been dominated by more or less a photojournalistic style more suited to a printed brochure. Among other things you will be seeing in the direction of a more impromptu style is the temporary posting of first and second drafts of developing material; this recognizing the webpage being more like a chalkboard than printed paper. Therefore, suiting key-strokes to concept I will begin with the results of research and experimentation from page margins and napkins to expand details as they can be collected from the project's notes and notebook.

The forum (click here) is now fully functional and is your place to interact with the processes of project development and website content. Please remember that while we may not reply to every posting there we do read them!

Robert Jene Amick

 
 
radically disintegrated metals
 
In 2002 the Institute's laboratory began the practical investigation of the production and characteristics of radically disintegrated metallic gold; a particular substance which is called MFKZT by Sir Laurence Gardner and before him by many more names as well. David Hudson of Arizona had revisited the subject in the 1990s with his publications of his discovery of radically disintegrated platinum to which he referred in his patents on the material as monatomic platinum. The Institute prefers the description of radically disintegrated metal and first saw it used in an 1801 publication by Karl von Eckharthausen entitled Chemical Experiments In the Radical Decomposition of Substances Especially of Metals. This article is one of several articles to be considered here along with and in light of the practical work as the chymistry section grows complete.
 
 
...by any other name
 
  • alchemy
  • chymiatria
  • iaotrochymia
  • pyrotechny
  • the art
These terms may be considered synonymous. (1)
 
 

In development on October 16, 2009

  • definition of chymisty and chemisty, with notes
  • successful reproduction of procedure for extraction of aloe vera
  • failure of extraction from sea salt and critique of the method's logic
  • notes on practical pyrotechny; from copper to gold
  • instability of copper product and other observations
  • mfkzt experiments, problems, and solutions
  • planned modifications of experimental procedures
  • speculation about bioassay and applications
  • a scrutiny of historic literature and perspectives 
 
 

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(1) Gehennical Fire; the Lives of George Starkey, William R. Newman, Harvard University Press, 1994, p. xi-xii.

"...the ancient precept, know thyself, and the modern precept, study nature, become at last one maxim."