Brewer's: Metals

The seven metals in alchemy. Gold, Apollo or the sun.

Silver, Diana or the moon.

Quicksilver, Mercury.

Copper, Venus.

Iron, Mars.

Tin, Jupiter.

Lead, Saturn.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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