File:Alembics from Andreas Libavius Alchymia.png
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English: Drawings of alembics from a Renaissance chemistry book by Andreas Libavius. These were glass and ceramic hoods for vessels used for distillation. The distillation vessel (called the "cucurbit") would be heated by a flame, the liquid inside would boil and the vapor would rise into the alembic, where it would condense by contact with the cool glass walls and run down the spout into a receiving container. Alembics were invented during the Middle Ages for use in alchemy, the protoscientific precursor to chemistry. |
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| Source | Downloaded August 18, 2013 from Still heads from Libavius "Alchymia", Images of alchemical apparatus, The Alchemy Website, levity.com. Image credited on source page to Andreas Libavius Alchymia, 1606 |
| Author | Andreas Libavius |
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