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alambic

alambic is the uncommon spelling of alembic.

Meaning of alembic

Noun

alembic (plural alembics)

  1. An early chemical apparatus, consisting of two retorts connected by a tube, used to purify substances by distillation.
    • Ideal beauty is not the mind’s creation: it is real beauty, refined and purified in the mind’s alembic, from the alloy which always more or less accompanies it in our mixed and imperfect nature.1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, chapter 11

Forms of alambic

pluralalambics

Questions about alambic

What is alambic the uncommon spelling of?
Alambic is the uncommon spelling of alembic.

Words near alambic in the dictionary

  1. Alamannia
  2. Alamannian
  3. Alamannic
  4. Alamans
  5. Alambagh
  6. alambic
  7. alambics
  8. Alamblak
  9. alambre
  10. alambres
  11. alameda

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