Alchemical Symbol for Mercury Sublimate 🜐

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• Used in content written with the Common script; suitable for UI labels and body text.
• Appears in the Unicode block Alchemical Symbols.

History & usage: ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR MERCURY SUBLIMATE depicts the emblem used in early and scholarly alchemy to signal mercury in sublimation contexts. The name contains tokens such as SYMBOL, which signals a sign rather than a letter, and FOR, which pairs a sign with its referent. Such tokens carry a general role in orthography and typography as indicators of what a mark represents or connects to, beyond any spoken sound. The descriptor ALCHEMICAL and the noun SUBLIMATE frame the symbol as part of a specialized symbolic language used in manuscripts and treatises rather than ordinary text.

Usage contexts include: in dictionaries and grammars that document symbolic vocabularies of alchemy, where the sign is listed with related symbols; in archival transcription of manuscripts, where sign lists are consulted to render processes and substances; and in typographic revivals or scholarly editions that reproduce or compare emblematic signs for teaching or conservation. If consulted in paleography or material history, the symbol helps trace how signs circulated among practitioners. Cross‑platform appearance may vary; provide accessible text descriptions and keyboard‑accessible alternatives for assistive technologies.

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