Daily Archives: June 3, 2014


Chrome Alum Crystal
Chrome alum (chromium alum) is a safe salt that produces beautiful natural purple crystals. The octahedral crystals are easy to grow, plus you can control how dark they are, to produce crystals ranging from pale lavender to deep amethyst purple. Chrome Alum Materials To get purple chrome alum crystals, you […]

How to Grow Purple Chrome Alum Crystals



The original four ancient elements for alchemists are earth, air, fire and water. These graphics show the alchemical symbols for each element and the color commonly associated with each. Earth is generally associated with the colors brown and green. Air is associated with blue, white, yellow or gray. Fire is […]

Earth, Air, Fire and Water Element Symbols



Elements Vault
Theodore Gray’s Elements Vault is a book about the chemical elements. However, it much more than just a book of element facts and pretty pictures. This book also includes: element samples (including real gold) 20 removable historic documents about the elements that you can pull out to examine 20″ x […]

Theodore Gray’s Elements Vault – Book Review


Earth Alchemy Symbol
Alchemists considered the all things to be made up of four basic elements: earth, air, fire and water. These are the alchemy symbols for earth, air, fire and water. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato further defined the four elements by adding two qualities to each element. There were four possible qualities: hot, […]

Earth, Air, Fire and Water Symbols