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alembic
a·lem·bic [ ə lémbik ] (plural a·lem·bics)


noun 
Definition:
 
distillation apparatus: an apparatus formerly used in distillation
[14th century. Via Old French and medieval Latin alembicus< Arabic al-'anbīḳ "the still" < Greek ambix "cup"]
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