The acid destined for table use ought to be distilled in an alembic whose capital and condensing worm are of silver; and to make it very fine, it may be afterwards infused over a little washed bone-black.
These data being assumed as the bases of the parting operation, 60 pounds of gold and silver alloy or garble finely granulated, containing not less than 40 pounds of silver, are to be introduced into the ten-gallon alembic of platinum, fig.
Each operation may be conveniently finished in twelve hours; so that each alembic may refine with ease 160 marcs daily.
The acid in this way parts with almost the whole of the cupreous oxide, and is then transferred into a large alembic of platinum (value 1000l.
The alembic may be then disengaged from the platinum tube, and lifted out of its seat.
The capital of that alembicis connected with a leaden-worm, which traverses an oblong vessel, through which a stream of cold water flows.
The grains are put into the alembic along with the liquid wash, and distilled into low wines, which are rectified twice over, some juniper berries and hops being added at the last distillation.
Abundance of space therefore remains in the alembic for effervescence and ebullition, provided the fire be rightly tempered.
The first kind of alembic is enclosed for two-thirds from its bottom, in a leaden or iron case, the interval of two inches between the two being destined to receive steam from an adjoining boiler.
Hence the narrower and taller the alembic is, within certain limits, the greater will be the proportion of oil relative to that of the aromatic water, from like proportions of aqueous and vegetable matter employed.
Resinous matter mixed with volatile oil is easily detected, being left in the alembic after distillation.
Put the whole into an alembic well luted; distil in a water bath; and what you draw off will prove an exquisite Angelic Water.
Distil at first with a gentle fire, which is to be encreased gradually till the drops follow each other as quick as possible; draw off the water as long as it continues to run clear, then put out the fire, and let the alembic stand till cold.
Mix the ingredients thoroughly, distil in a glass alembicwith a sand heat; and wash the face with the distilled Water, as occasion requires.
When they have stood in infusion eight days, empty the ingredients and liquor into an alembic of a common height, and distil in a water-bath.
Lute on a bolt-head, place thealembic in a sand heat, fix on a receiver, and leave matters in this state two days, then light a fire under it and distil quick.
Take seven or eight White Pigeons, pick them, and cut off their heads and pinions, mince the rest of them small, and put them into an alembic with the other ingredients.
Place the alembic in a sand heat, and urge the fire to the first degree, to have the genuine Balsamic Oil, which ought to be of the consistence of clarified Honey.
So high an authority as Gibbon (Decline and Fall) is of opinion that 'they first invented and named the alembic for the purpose of distillation.
Having distilled my gallant in my alembic I found that his bowels contained large chunks of church benefices, which had fattened him so much that he almost burst in his hose.
Well now, let me submit the enemies of the Reformation to the alembic in order to ascertain what there is in their composition to render them so very refractory.
First of all, I submit to my philosophic alembic the brains of a canon.
Joy's golden drops are only distilled in thealembic of woman's heart!
This," taking up a green vial, "contains the quintessence of mandrakes distilled in the alembic when Scorpio rules the hour.
Take any quantity you please of human Excrement, and distil it in a glass alembic set in the balneum mariae.
Set this alembic in a water-bath, lute on a receiver, and distil with a very gentle heat.
Set this alembic in a sand-bath, so that the body may be almost covered with sand: apply a receiver, and distil with a moderate heat, so that the drops may succeed each other at the distance of some seconds.
Set your alembic in a sand-heat; lute on a long-necked receiver; and give a gradual fire till the water in the cucurbit boil.
Then distil your Spirit in a small alembic with a gentle heat, and you will have it as much dephlegmated as it can be.
Lute on a receiver with wet bladder, and distil with a gentle fire; yet so that the drops which fall from the nose of the alembic may succeed one another pretty quick, and form a sort of small continued stream.
From these tombs numberless urns of glass, in cases of lead or stone, have been taken, as well as many examples of glass of rare and exceptional shapes--among others what is apparently an alembic for use in distillation.
Of greater interest is the primitive arrangement for distilling--a combination of aludel and alembic that calls to mind the illustrations to the Syriac manuscripts that I have mentioned in a former chapter.
Put your pot under a chimney and hang thereupon an Alembic Cap, whose mouth should relate to that of the pot.
And imagination is the alembic that discovers the significance of the facts.
A thousand influences are poured into the alembic of the spirit, and serenity issues forth in modest splendor.
My travelling fund had melted away in thealembic of cafes, theatres, masquerades, and "quadroon" balls.
Scent to match thy rich perfume Chemic art did ne'er presume, Through her quaint alembic strain, None so sov'reign to the brain.
The head of the alembic was then put on, a condensing apparatus attached, the alembic placed as before on a salt-water bath, the bath brought to the boiling point, and distillation conducted until the whole of the prussic acid was expelled.
If then the "Young Queen," the sublimated compound, appeared with a brilliant colour in the alembic the proper result was obtained and this signified the true medicine.
He prepared it by putting into an alembic one pound of sulphate of iron of Cyprus, half a pound of saltpetre, and a quarter of a pound of alum of Jameni: this mixture was distilled till every thing liquid was driven over.
He mentions the red fumes which make their appearance in the alembic during the process.
Mete out the sulphur Into the alembic Of Cleopatra's crystal.
I then turned my attention to a receiver, connected by a worm with an alembic on the furnace.
Doctor Lamb was plying the bellows at the furnace, on which a large alembic was placed, and he was so engrossed by his task that he scarcely noticed the entrance of the others.
And in a kind of frenzy of enthusiasm the scholar fell to pacing the floor, now mouthing hexameters, now spurning with his foot a pot or an alembic which had the ill-luck to lie in his path.
But what that was which was lacking, or how it had entered into the alembic in the first instance, could not be discovered.
These are the ingredients out of which, in the alembic of his genius, the adjutant, perspiring like a wedding guest come to celebrate the climax of a happy disaster, must fuse a Dress Parade.
Saxon and Norman and Dane were we, or Celt or Teuton in birth or descent, but all of us then crystallized in the alembic of patriotism into the first generation of unadulterated Americans.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alembic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anvil; apparatus; crucible; engine; lathe; machine; mortar; motor; retort; transformer
