The Material Laws

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The Material Laws are physical laws that govern the art of alchemy. These laws are to do with things such as transmutation and purification as well as using Programmable Alchemical Apparatus.
With the Programmable Alchemical Apparatus, it governs what elements can appear. Those which are radioactive cannot be created through the use of alchemy.

Transmutation

Transmutation works either by giving Lead and another metal on the metals ladder to receive one metal higher up on the ladder with the Lead being replaced with Mercury. Downwards words by giving a metal which is on the ladder and Mercury, into a transmutation Glyph.
The result of this will be both metals in the same glass bottle, so will need a sorting Glyph, to separate the metals.

Up

Reagent	Metal	Result
1kg Lead	2kg Silver	1kg Mercury and 1kg Gold
1kg Lead	4kg Copper	1kg Mercury and 2kg Silver
1kg Lead	8kg Iron	1kg Mercury and 4kg Copper
1kg Lead	16kg Tin	1kg Mercury and 8kg Iron

Down

Reagent	Metal	Result
1kg Mercury	1kg Gold	1kg Lead and 2kg Silver
1kg Mercury	2kg Silver	1kg Lead and 4kg Copper
1kg Mercury	4kg Copper	1kg Lead and 8kg Iron
1kg Mercury	8kg Iron	1kg Lead and 16kg Tin

Purification

Old Version

With purification, salt (Sodium Chloride), Sodium (11) and Chlorine (17) are alchemically combined to make Nickel (28) and then subtracted from the non-metal part of the salt. For example copper sulphate, the sulphur would be subtracted from the Nickel making Magnesium (12). The Copper is ignored as it is the metal part of the salt.
The end product is Copper (29) and Magnesium (12) in dust form, the sulphur is ultimately sacrificed in the process.

Sodium (11) + Chlorine (17) = Nickel (28) -> 11 + 17 = 28
Nickel (28) - Sulphur (16) = Magnesium (12) -> 28 - 16 = 12

If an element is a metal in a Glyph’s output, unless it is Mercury it will be the dust form of the metal. Getting the metal into a useful form, the metal would have to be given to the metalsmithing department to be melted.

A Portion of the poster to do with The Material Laws by James Woodwright