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BOILING
GLASS
(GNOMISH:
"FIRNEL
SIMARS")
The boiling glasses are usually cylindrically shaped vessels, which can be long
and small in length. The length of the long boiling glasses must be twice as big
as their diameter. These glasses can be with a snout or without it, with
measuring lines drawn on their sides or without them. The capacity of these
glasses can be various: long glasses can have a maximum capacity of two, four,
six, ten, sixteen, twenty-four, forty, eighty, one hundred and twelve
sips, small glasses - 1/5,
2/5, one and up to two hundred
sips. It is restricted to heat boiling glasses on an open
fire. They can be heated only on closed heating surfaces, like on a home
furnace, and in various kinds of baths.
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FLASK
(GNOMISH:
"FLOG")
The flasks are vessels that are conical in shape with a flat bottom and a narrow
neck. They are made out of glass that has a high resistance against the
aggressive natured substances and high temperatures. The capacity of these
flasks is various - starting with 2/5 of a
sip and up to two hundred
sips. In appearance, they
differ by the length of a neck and by their diameter. These flasks are used for
making the solutions or during the researching euxperi. You should remember that
these flasks can be heated only on the closed heating surfaces.
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FUNNEL,
VI, FILLION
(GNOMISH:
"GNUFILIM")
The glass funnels that are also called "Vi" or "Fillion" in the workshop of an
alchemist can be used for various goals - filtration, separation of solutions,
for pattering solid or powdered substances into the other vessels, or for
pouring liquids into the other vessels etc. Therefore, they can vary in
appearance. A funnel is a conical shaped vessel that has a tube which is molten
to its top, and this tube has a delicate truncated end. The size of a funnel is
determined by its diameter. Usually alchemists use only eight different sized
funnels, which diameters are as follows: 1.) three
nailsbreadths and two
grains, 2.) five
nailsbreadths and two
grains, 3.) six
nailsbreadths and four
grains, 4.) one
palmspan, 5.) one
palmspan, four
nailsbreadths and four
grains, 6.) two
palmspans, 7.) two
palmspans, four
nailsbreadths and four
grains, and 8.) two
palmspans, nine
nailsbreadths and four
grains.
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MEASUNDER,
MEACYL
(GNOMISH:
"ERTUMEFIT",
"ERTUMARIL")
The measunder, or differently called "meacyl", is a cylindrically shaped vessel,
which has several measuring lines that are drawn on the side of the cylinder
indicating a certain capacity. Each line has a value of 1/25 of a
sip. There are measunderi of
various maximal capacities - 1/5, 2/5, one, two, four, ten, twenty, forty, and
eighty sips. To correctly
measure a certain amount of liquid, you must pour the liquid into the measunder
until its surface reaches the line you need. Measunderi can also be various in
some technical details. Some of them can be with a spout and some without it.
They can be wide or thin in diameter, short or long in length. The bottom of a
measunder also is very important. It has to be smooth to ensure that the
measunder will stand still on the table and is not slanted to the one or another
side, otherwise there is a possibility to measure an incorrect amount of liquid
which will affect lasting euxperi and as a result there will be untrue, or
sometimes even unwanted, outcomes.
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MEABUL,
THE (GNOMISH:
"ERTUBELGIC")
The meabul is a round, flat-bottomed flask with a narrow and a long neck. On its
side a measuring line is drawn that is in the middle of the neck indicating a
certain capacity. If a measunder can measure various capacities at a time, then
a meabul is created to measure only one certain capacity at a time. There are
meabuls of various capacities - one, two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, twenty,
forty, and rarely eighty sips.
Meabuls are used to make solutions with a precise concentration.
To make a precisely concentrated solution you first have to place the meabul on
a horizontal surface. Then, by using a funnel, 1/2 or 2/3 of a meabul fill with
the solvent and add powdered substance or liquid that has to be dissolved in
already poured solvent. After that, gargle the vessel to mix up the reagents.
When you see that all the powdered substance has dissolved, add the rest of the
solvent until its surface almost reaches the line and gargle the vessel again.
Add the last drops of the solvent intently until the surface of the solution
reaches the line. It is highly restricted to warm up the meabuls, because the
warmth can make them wider in diameter, therefore badly affecting the measuring
results. There might be situations when warming up a meabul results in its
rupturing, so care must be taken.
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MEDICINE
GLASS
(GNOMISH:
"RUM
SIMARS")
The medicine glass is a conical or cylindrically shaped vessel that has a
measuring lines on its side, which are showing a certain capacity. Each line has
a value of 1/5 of a sip. Like measunderi and meabuls, medicine glasses can also
vary in capacity, but the alchemists mostly use those medicine glasses that have
the maximum capacities of two, four, ten, twenty, and forty
sips. If measunderi and
meabuls are used for measuring precise amounts of liquid, then medicine glasses
are used only for measuring an approximate amount of liquid.
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ROUNDED
BOTTOM FLASK
(GNOMISH:
"SODELMICRAN
FLOG")
The rounded bottom flasks have a neck of various length and diameter, and their
bottoms are totally rounded, therefore such flasks cannot be placed on the
horizontal surface in vertical position, but can be fastened to a fastening rod.
The capacity of the rounded bottom flasks with long necks can vary from four to
one hundred and twelve sips,
but the capacity of the rounded bottom flasks with short necks can vary between
two to forty sips. These
flasks are used for heating liquids during the long time period on the open
fire. There are also the rounded bottom flasks with more
than one neck. Such flasks are used in order to transfer liquids or gases away
or to the appropriate vessel of an alchemical apparatus. There can be up to
four-necked round bottom flasks.
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TABLE
FLASK
(GNOMISH:
"DUBERFLOG")
The table flasks are rounded, flat-bottomed vessels. The flat-bottom insures the
flask's stability on the horizontal surface. The table flasks can have various
lengths of a neck and capacities - starting with one and up to two hundred
sips. The usage and
resistance of these flasks are the same as a simple flasks.
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VIAL
(GNOMISH:
"MUN")
Vials are small, cylindrically shaped glacial tubes, with closed lower ends.
Their length can vary from three
nailsbreadths, four grains
up to two palmspans, six
nailsbreadths, four
grains, but the diameter can
vary between two nailsbreadths
and two nailsbreadths, four
grains. The vials are used
only for working with small amounts of the substances, therefore the vials
should be filled no more than 1/4 to 1/8 of their total capacity. One should not
fill the vial in full. You should begin to heat a vial on the open
fire, in the direction from top to its bottom, otherwise,
heating a vial in an opposite direction it might happen that the substance which
is inside the vial, will slop out of it all over the place, and if it is very
explosive or corrosive, the outcome can be disastrous. During the euxperi, the
vial should be held in the hand, but when heated it should be fastened to a
fastening rod, which is made out of an iron, or it should be placed into the
vial claw. The vials are placed and held in vial stands (clean vials should be
placed with the open end downward, but during euxperi with open end upward).
After the euxperi, the vials should be washed very carefully.
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