alembic
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alembic
- /əˈlɛm.bɪk/
Where it comes from
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.
noun alembics · alembick · limbeck
- 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.
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noun chemical apparatus
| Español | alambique |
|---|---|
| Português | alambique |
| Français | alambic |
| Deutsch | Alambic, Destillierkolben |
| Italiano | alambicco |
| Ελληνικά | άμβικας ámvikas |
| Română | alambic |
| Русский | дистилля́тор distilljátor, перего́нный куб peregónnyj kub |
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