1) Alchemical tool 2) Purifier 3) Retort
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1) Furnace
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An alembic ({ety|ara|{{unicode|الأنبيق} (al-anbīq)}}, {ety|gre|ἄμβυξ (ambyx)}, possibly from Semitic) is an alchemical still consisting of two vessels connected by a tube, used for distilling chemicals. Technically, the alembic is the lid with a tube attachment (the still-head), which is placed on top of a flask, the cucurbit, contai...
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[Computer Graphics] Its primary focus is the interchange of geometry (models) between different groups working on the same shots or same assets. This is often different departments in the same company or different studios working on the same projects. Alembic supports the common geometric representations used in the industry, including poly...
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• (n.) An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still.
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An early type of still, popularly associated with experiments in alchemy. The term strictly refers only to a particular form of distillation head.
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A·lem'bic (ȧ*lĕm'bĭk)
noun [ French
alambic (cf. Spanish
alambique ), Arabic
al-anbīq , from Greek
'a`mbix cup, cap of a still. The cap or head was the
alembic proper. Confer
Limbec .] An apparatus formerly used in distillation...
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Alembic: A type of still, an apparatus used in the process of distillation. Alembics were employed in chemistry and biomedical laboratories as well as in distilling cognac. By extension, 'alembic' is anything that refines or transmutes as if by distillation. For example, the alembic of the surgeon's mind. From the Arabic al-anbiq meaning 'the still...
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An alembic was a vessel made of copper or glass formerly used for distillation. The lower part of it, called the cucurbit, was shaped like a gourd, the top part which received the steam and condensed it was called the head and had a beak which was fitted into the neck of a receiver. By the end of the 19th century the alembic was all but obsolete, b...
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n] - an obsolete kind of container used for distillation
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noun an obsolete kind of container used for distillation; two retorts connected by a tube
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a vessel with a beaked cap or head, formerly used in distilling. · anything that transforms, purifies, or refines.
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