Metals bastard

This characterization of zinc and bismuth as bastard metals, finds its analogue in a later century in the designation of these and other substances, as halfmetals or semimetals as for example by Boerhaave in the beginning of the eighteenth century. 

The alchemists viewed arsenic as a bastard metal or semi-metal . Some regarded it as akin to quicksilver, its red sulphide resembling cinnabar, and the volatility of its compounds that of mercury salts. To it they gave the symbol o—o often accompanied by a coiled snake. Brandt observed that white arsenic, AsjOs, was the calx of the semi-metal. 

Zincken which is a metal and yet none, also Wismutli and the like which fuse and to some extent are malleable. And yet although they are somewhat related to the metals through their fusibility, they are only bastards of metals. That is, like them and yet unlike. Zincken is for the most part a bastard of copper, and. Wismutli of tin. ... 

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