sublimatory
/ˌsʌblɪˈmeɪtəɹi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A vessel or device used for sublimation.
adj
Used for sublimation.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "[W]hen (to explain my meaning by a groſs Example) the Corpuſcles of Sulphur and Mercury do, by a ſtrict Coalition, aſſociate themſelves into the Body vve call Vermilion, though theſe vvill riſe together in Sublimatory Veſſels, vvithout being divorc'd by the fire, and vvill act, in many caſes, as one Phyſical Body: yet tis knovvn enough among Chymiſts, That if You exquiſitely mix vvith it a due proportion of Salt of Tartar, the parts of the Alkaly vvill aſſociate themſelves more ſtrictly vvith thoſe of the Sulphur, then theſe vvere before aſſociated vvith thoſe of the Mercury, vvhereby You ſhall obtain out of the Cinnabar, vvhich ſeem'd intenſely red, a real Mercury, that vvill look like fluid Silver."
Etymology
From Middle English sublymatories pl, from Medieval Latin sublīmātōrium, from Latin sublīmātus (see sublime) + -ōrium.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sublymatories, sublīmātōrium, sublīmātus, sublimatoire, sublīmātōrius