Caput Mortuum (plural Capita Mortua) is a Latin term whose literal meaning is "dead head" or "worthless remains", used in alchemy and also as the name of a pigment.
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Thus this stage is also described in alchemical texts as the blackening , the nigredo experience , and it is often pictured as a death process , as in the caput mortuum , the deaths head , or as some alchemical illustrations show , the alchemist dying within a flask 因此,这个阶段在炼金术文献里面也描绘成致黑,黑斑蚧的体验,也经常被描绘成死亡的进程,就像在大量的通知猎物已死的号角声一样,死亡的头,或者就像一些炼金术图像所表示,炼金术士在长颈瓶内的死亡。