Introduction to the alchemy stove: The alchemy stove is made of twenty-four strips of green granite according to the Taoist Yin and Yang Bagua pattern. The furnace body consists of three parts: the furnace base, the furnace body, and the furnace tripod. It is 3.54 meters high. It is said that Ge Hong used this furnace to refine the nine-turn golden elixir for seventy-seven forty-nine days, and after taking it, he became an immortal.
Ge Hong concluded: "The experience of "burning cinnabar into mercury, and then reducing it to cinnabar after accumulation" is the earliest written record of the decomposition of compounds in the history of world chemistry.

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