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Definition of Athanors
1. athanor [n] - See also: athanor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Athanors
Literary usage of Athanors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1837)
"... on the principle of the ancient furnaces, called " athanors" by the earlier
chemists. The only difficulty to be apprehended in the use of coke, ..."
2. The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II: 1576-1612 by Henry Carrington Bolton (1904)
"Tycho Brahe was also a practical alchemist working with crucibles, athanors and
alembics at what he called "terrestrial astronomy," the planets and the ..."
3. Examination of the Objections Made in Britain Against the Doctrines of Gall by Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, Richard Chenevix (1833)
"... when they heard of oxygen; and would rather that the ocean had swallowed them
up, than have seen one drop of water decomposed. athanors waxed dim ..."
4. Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries (1810)
"... after the manner of those called athanors, into which the fuel is introduced
by means of a harry, and consequently the fireplace, ..."
5. Phrenology: Article of the Foreign Quarterly Review by Richard Chenevix (1830)
"... when they heard of oxygen; and would rather that the ocean had swallowed them
up, than have seen one drop of water decomposed. athanors waxed dim ..."
6. Bibliotheca Chemica: A Catalogue of the Alchemical, Chemical and by John Ferguson (1906)
"Nebst einer gefundenen nöthigen Verbesserung meines athanors. Mit einem nöthigen
Kupfer versehen. . . . 1747. Pp. 40, including the plate. ..."
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