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Ceration is a chemical process, a common practice in alchemy. It is performed by continuously adding a liquid by imbibition to a hard, dry substance while it is heated. Typically, this treatment makes the substance softer, more like molten wax (cera in Latin).^[1] Pseudo-Geber's Summa Perfectionis explains that ceration is "the mollification of an hard thing, not fusible unto liquefaction", and stresses the importance of correct humidity in the process.^[2]Antoine-Joseph Pernety's 1787 mytho-Hermetic dictionary defines it somewhat differently as the time when matter passes from black to gray, and then to white. Continuous cooking effects this change.^[3] Ceration may be synonymous with similar terms for alchemical burning processes. Incineration, for example is listed by Manly P. Hall.^[4]

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1. ^{{cite encyclopedia| title= ceration | first= Martinus| last= Rulandus| work= Lexicon of Alchemy| year= 1612}}
2. ^{{cite book| first= Stanton J.| last= Linden| title= The alchemy reader: from Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton| place= Cambridge| year= 2003| page= 93| isbn= }}
3. ^{{cite book| first= Antoine-Joseph| last= Pernety| title= Dictionnaire mytho-hermétique, dans lequel on trouvre les allégories fabuleuses des poètes, les métaphores, les énigmes et les termes barbares des philosophes hermétiques expliqués| language= French| year= 1787 | page= 70}}
4. ^{{cite book| authorlink= Manly P. Hall| first= Manly P. | last= Hall| title= The Secret Teachings of All Ages| place= Los Angeles| year= 1928| page= 507}}

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