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ALEMBIC (Arab. al, definite See also:article, anbiq, a still; cognate to the • Gr. agOtE, a See also:cup) , an apparatus for See also:distillation, used chiefly by the alchemists, and now superseded by the See also:retort and the See also:worm-still. It varied considerably in See also:form and construction, but consisted essentially of three parts—a See also:vessel containing the material to be distilled and called, from its See also:gourd-like shape, the cucurbit or mattrass; a vessel to receive and condense the vapour, called the See also:head or See also:capital; and a See also:receiver for the spirit, connected by a See also:pipe with the capital. The entire apparatus was sometimes constructed of See also:glass, but it was more usual to make the cucurbit of See also:copper or earthenware; and the capital alone of glass.

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