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Definition of Limbeck
1. alembic [n -S] - See also: alembic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limbeck
Literary usage of Limbeck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Book of Simples by Henry William Lewer (1908)
"... you muft not ftir it after you have put in the Harts home left it go down to
ye bottom then fet on the limbeck and make it faft and fo receive the water ..."
2. Clinical pathology of the blood: A Treatise on the General Principles and by James Ewing (1903)
"limbeck finds only 0.2 per cent. of salts in red cells, yet their isotonic tension
is equivalent to at least 0.46 per cent. NaCl. ..."
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