alembic

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Although he relished putting his life into his art, he boiled life in his poet’s alembic at a pretty high temperature, and much of the who, when, and how was volatilized away.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 2, 2017

London’s smallest museum and gin symposium lab, The Ginstitute, houses a unique collection of gin related memorabilia including Jerry Thomas’ business card and is home to a 30L alembic still, named Copernicus the Second.

From Forbes • Apr. 17, 2015

There was, in him, such a simmer of emotions, like chemicals thrown together in an alembic: fear like a sulfur fog, bitterness as sharp as salt, and damned fickle mercury for failure and desperation.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

The German mystic, though ingenious and laborious, is also tepid, pretentious, insecure; half terrified at his own timid audacities, half choked by the fumes of his own alembic.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

From the alembic a strange cloud arose, And once again her face!...

From The Immortal Lure by Rice, Cale Young