There is little loss. I let the boiling go on the hundredth of a minute too long. Trifles are enormous in the hermetical art, but anyway, here are two crucibles empty and two ingots cast, and they amount to a hundred weight of fine gold.

— Alessandro Cagliostro Balsamo the Magician (or The Memoirs of a Physician) by Alex. Dumas (1891)

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