alembic

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Although he relished putting his life into his art, he boiled life in his poet’s alembic at a pretty high temperature, and much of the who, when, and how was volatilized away.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 2, 2017

London’s smallest museum and gin symposium lab, The Ginstitute, houses a unique collection of gin related memorabilia including Jerry Thomas’ business card and is home to a 30L alembic still, named Copernicus the Second.

From Forbes • Apr. 17, 2015

There was, in him, such a simmer of emotions, like chemicals thrown together in an alembic: fear like a sulfur fog, bitterness as sharp as salt, and damned fickle mercury for failure and desperation.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Mete out the sulphur Into the alembic Of Cleopatra's crystal.—I must see her!

From The Immortal Lure by Rice, Cale Young

It is the philosophy whose purest essence may be found distilled in Browning's magical alembic, and a single drop of it will affect the brain of some people with a strange giddiness.

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer