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

Another of the masked men opened a curious little casket that I perceived was surmounted by an alembic and other alchemical figures, and embossed with an Oriental design.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri

Here follow the “Proverbs of Hell,” which give us the quintessence and the most fine gold of Blake’s alembic.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles