Week 6 Retro Refining
Retro Refining
by Yosh
METRICS
Cycles > Cost
Sum (Cycles + Cost + Instructions) > No tiebreakers
> is used as an arrow and indicates tiebreaker order.
REAGENTS
Copper-Lead Ore Extract
PRODUCTS
Outdated Metallic Chart
Retro Refining
Long before projection was discovered, alchemists in the distant past had to resort to simple purification to upgrade the purity of their metals. Some alchemists during this trying time of metallicity scarcity attempted to acquire a more robust, but still portable apparatus that could yield all of the metals at a moment's notice.
Before long, a reagent comprised of a copper-lead pair was determined to be a fairly cheap precursor that was readily available, with which one could feasibly construct a scheme of all metals. In modern times, the advent of projection has made this purification process archaic and undesirable for most practical purposes; nevertheless, here it is presented for posterity and historical preservation.
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