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Type of retort

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The alembic is washed to remove all the remains of the previous distillation.
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The distillation is done using the alembic or el romeli also al karkeh, made of copper.
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The Alexandrians were using a distillation alembic or still device in the 3rd century AD.
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Other Arab chemists provided us with the words alembic, amalgam, borax, camphor and elixir.
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The Alexandrians were using a distillation alembic or still device in the third century AD.
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Alembic became quite busy installing these new active electronics in players'guitars and basses.
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A pair of bright copper alembic pot stills fabricated in Portugal look like plump Christmas ornaments.
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Alembic have always followed a strict no endorsement policy.
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He utilized equipment such as the alembic and the retort.
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  • An obsolete kind of container used for distillation; two retorts connected by a tube
  • An alembic (Arabic u0627u0644u0623u0646u0628u064Au0642 (al-anbu012Bu1E33) from Greek u1F04u03BCu03B2u03B9u03BE (ambix), "cup, beaker") is an alchemical still consisting of two vessels connected by a tube, used for distilling chemicals.
  • Something that refines or transmutes as if by distillation
  • A chemical vessel formerly used in distillation, usually of glass or copper (see cucurbit)
  • The traditional pot still that requires several cycles of distillation in order to refine the alcohol to the desired level.
  • An apparatus formerly used in distilling, consisting of a gourd-shaped vessel containing the substance to be distilled, surmounted by the alembic proper, the beak of which conveyed the vaporous products to a receiver, in which they were condensed. ...
  • A kind of flask used by alchemists for distilling
  • An alchemical retort thru which evaporated liquids are condensed. [p. 832]
  • N. - ancient distilling apparatus; purifying or transforming apparatus or act. alembicate, v. distil. alembicated, adj. rather too refined (of literary style).