The alembics are covered with conical capitals, ending in bent tubes, which conduct the acid vapours into lead pipes of condensation; and the furnaces are erected under a proper hood.
Hence it is advantageous to employ alembics of large size.
Upon several furnaces, one foot in diameter, egg-shaped alembics of platinum are mounted, into each of which are put 3 kilogrammes (8 lbs.
He set up the alembics and pipkins which he had overturned, and here and there he opened a black-lettered folio, discovered an inch or two of crabbed Hebrew, or the corner of an illuminated script.
Crucibles and alembics stood in the ashes before the stove, and on a sideboard placed under the window were scattered a set of silver scales, a chemist's mask, and a number of similar objects.
All these stages are undoubtedly necessary to the full perfection of the body: they are alembics through which its parts must necessarily move to attain that vigor which shall continue forever.
There are some alembics of glass, blown in such a manner by the workmen, that the body and head form but one continued piece.
Every body knows that Soot consists only of these principles, collected in the shafts of chimneys, which serve as alembics for this sort of distillation in the open air.
In this case recourse must be had to alembics of glass.
As these alembics do not stand in need of having their several pieces luted together, they are very useful on some occasions, when such exceeding subtile vapours rise as are capable of transpiring through lutes.
When saline spirits are to be distilled, alembicsof metal must not be used; because the saline vapours would corrode them.
As they hold the middle place between alembics and common retorts, they may be used to distil such matters as have a mean degree of volatility between the greatest and the least.
All copper alembics should be tinned on the inside for the reasons already given.
He expected to be sent to the deepest, dankest cave of all the world as a laboratory, and to find it equipped with pedigreed bats, dried unicorn horns and whole rows of alembics that he couldn't use.
He found a door, but it led into a closet, filled with alembics and other equipment.
He inherited a little patrimony, and sank it all inalembics and chemical retorts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alembics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
