alembic

alchemical still consisting of two vessels connected by a tube, used for distilling chemicals
Place appliance Q845242
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alembic

Summary

alembic is an appliance[1]. alembic draws 173 Wikipedia views per month (appliance category, ranking #11 of 73).[2]

Key Facts

  • alembic's image is recorded as Distillation by Retort.png[3].
  • alembic's image is recorded as Alambins industrials per a la destil·lació de licors a Catalunya.jpg[4].
  • alembic's instance of is recorded as appliance[5].
  • gourd is named after alembic[6].
  • alembic's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85038521[7].
  • alembic's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11942425m[8].
  • alembic's subclass of is recorded as still[9].
  • alembic's has use is recorded as distillation[10].
  • alembic's Commons category is recorded as Alambics[11].
  • alembic's pronunciation audio is recorded as Q845242-ar.ogg[12].
  • alembic's Unicode character is recorded as ⚗[13].
  • alembic's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 76496[14].
  • alembic's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02fl0r[15].
  • alembic's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX524864[16].
  • alembic's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300197358[17].
  • alembic's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0076247[18].
  • alembic's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0076248[19].
  • alembic's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • alembic's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • alembic's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • alembic's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedic Lexicon[23].
  • alembic's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[24].
  • alembic's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[25].
  • alembic's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[26].
  • alembic's different from is recorded as Q20014544[27].

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Designation and Status

alembic's instance of is recorded as appliance[5].

History and Context

gourd is named after alembic[6].

Cultural Significance

Things named for alembic include lambic[28], a beer style[29].

Why It Matters

alembic draws 173 Wikipedia views per month (appliance category, ranking #11 of 73).[2] alembic has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] alembic is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for alembic include lambic[28], a beer style[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_alembic_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{alembic}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/alembic}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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