Alcahest Formula

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This special Casting requires the alchemist to have as its subject 100 pints of Wateracid (q. v.). From this liquid the Alcahestis distilied through the Effect of this operative dweomer. The end result is one pint of Alcahest...the universal solvent. The stuff is sovereign with regard to any of the four Mundane Elements (air, fire, water. earth) but not tau. It is not so potent against Heka. In that the Alcahest is neutralized by Heka at a one ounce to 10 Heka-point basis when interacting with some basic element as welt Thus, the Alcahest in dissolving a suit of enchanted armor, will lose one ounce of its effective Power for each point of Heka that the armor could have withstood up to 160 points. Otharwise. the Alcahest dissolves one cubic rod of any sort of non-risks bearing trader of solid or liquid sort, taming it into a vapor in the process, per one ounce of its substance. For example, if the Alcahest were so poured as to begin its dissolution over a one square yard area one ounce would dissolve 272.25 cubic feet of mailer before being exhausted. Working straight down, the stuff would leave a generally square shaft 30.25 feet deep by one yard square in approximately 9 CTs time. The ounce of Alcahest would then be neutralized. As noted, the Alcahest will not dissolve or react with tau, so the alchemist must have a vessel of pure tau matter to contain the stuff. This can be fashioned only through the Work Tau Casing.