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alembic

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Gracie packed up her Wellington boots, long-sleeved shirts, and trousers, and flew to Caracas with a five-liter alembic still.

All these were to be reduced to powder and placed in a glass alembic and dissolved.

Alembic, al-em′bik, n. a vessel used by the old chemists in distillation.

I then turned my attention to a receiver, connected by a worm with an alembic on the furnace.

You pass it through alembic after alembic, it comes out still a Dishonesty, with a new dress on it, a new colour to it.

Tortured in the human alembic, she was at length resolved, seeing with a vision that pierced all her horizons.

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On this page you'll find 97 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to alembic, such as: bag, bottle, bowl, box, bucket, and can.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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