alembic

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In his chemistry lab, a short walk from the history department, the cabinets are full of alembics, retorts and other bulbous glass devices.

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2018

With retorts, alembics, beakers, pots, furnaces and incantations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Post-Einsteinian runes will decorate their doors, philosopher's stones, alembics, superhuman skeletons their cells.

From Time Magazine Archive

He turned his back on these Doctor Wagners, brooding on their alembics to hatch out some homunculus in bottle: and, running away from French music, he sought to enter literary circles and Parisian society.

From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Cannan, Gilbert

I regretted my bowing acquaintance with modern science, which forbade my setting up a laboratory with alembics and magic crystals wherewith to conduct experiments for the finding of the Elixir Vitae and the Philosopher's Stone.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John