Meaning of sublimatory | Babel Free

Definitions

A vessel or device used for sublimation.

Examples

“Take the black feces, that remain in the bottome, stampe them, and put them in a sublimatory of good earth, of an inch thick, and no more, for six houres, first a little fire, then reinforce it for twelve others, till the sublimatory be red[…]”

“How Sulphur is sublimed. Take the best and clearest yellow Sulphur[…]then put [the sulphur and other substances] into your Sublimatory, and put on its head; add to it fire of the first degree, until all its moisture be vapoured away; then close the pipe above, and proceed with the fire by degrees, until all the Sulphur be sublimed very subtle.”

“This is why ordinary mercury can be "precipitated", that is, made to congeal and fall to the bottom of a sublimatory by fire alone.”

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