Alembic Small 183×320 Medium 367×640 Large 587×1024 Download Tiff Original 1375×2400 | (307.7 KB) Description "A vessel formerly used in chemistry for distillation, and usually made of glass or copper."-Whitney, 1902 Keywords chemistry, distillation, still Galleries Chemistry Apparatus Source: William Dwight Whitney, The Century Dictionary, an Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York: The Century Co., 1902)I-135