
Algarot is a pale white emetic powder formerly used in alchemy that consists of a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was used as an emetic because it purges violently both through regurgitation and diarrhea. ==History== In his Currus Triumphalis Antimonii (The triumphal chariot of antimony) Basil Valentine describes the reaction ...
Found on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algarot

• (n.) Alt. of Algaroth
Found on
http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/algarot/
No exact match found.