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athanor
[ ath-uh-nawr ]
noun
, Alchemy.
- a digester furnace with a self-feeding fuel supply contained in a towerlike contrivance, ensuring a constant, durable temperature.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of athanor1
1425–75; late Middle English ≪ Arabic at tannūr the furnace
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Example Sentences
The draught affects the furnace—my Athanor, as we adepts term it.
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A, shows an athanor (or digesting furnace) and a couple of digesting vessels.
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Or Athanor, a chemical stove, which works on for a long time without poking.
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We know of the athanor of the alchemists of the middle ages.
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