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Alkahest   Listen
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Alkahest  n.  The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies.





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"Alkahest" Quotes from Famous Books



... name of Eirenaeus Philalethes (born in 1622) is unknown. It may have been Childe. He claimed to have discovered the philosopher's stone in 1645. His tract in this work is The Secret of the Immortal Liquor Alkahest or Ignis-Aqua. See note ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan


Words linked to "Alkahest" :   dissolver, dissolvent, alkahestic, dissolving agent, alcahest, solvent, resolvent, universal solvent


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