The Rasaratna Samuccaya and the Rasarnava classify minerals and metals, describe furnaces and apparatus for distillation and sublimation, and set out purification, calcination and the making of alloys as repeatable procedures.
Rasaratna Samuccaya
Date disputed; the texts are compilations of a longer tradition · disputed · disputed
Attribution of the Rasaratna Samuccaya is debated; no single author is established
Unknown or disputed.
Chemistry · CBSE · ICSE · IGCSE · IB · State — Rasashastra. Classification of minerals and metals, calcination, distillation and sublimation apparatus, purification, alloys, mercurial preparations.
Evidence: traditionally attributed · no modern scholarly reference recorded yet.