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Alembic

//əˈlɛm.bɪk// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An early chemical apparatus, consisting of two retorts connected by a tube, used to purify substances by distillation.

    "Ideal beauty is not the mind’s creation: it is real beauty, refined and purified in the mind’s alembic, from the alloy which always more or less accompanies it in our mixed and imperfect nature."

  2. 2
    an obsolete kind of container used for distillation; two retorts connected by a tube wordnet

Etymology

From French alambic, from Medieval Latin alembīcus, from Arabic الإِنْبِيق (al-ʔinbīq), from Ancient Greek ἄμβιξ (ámbix, “cup, cap of a still”). Doublet of ambix and lambic.

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