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Agyrtoi, 93

Alabaster, ii, 279

Albucasis of Cordova, 110, 329

Album Græcum, ii, 10

Album Rhasis, ii, 279

Alchemy, invention, 4. See also Chemistry

Alcohol, constitution, 330; formula, ii, 270; etymology, 103, 326; early references, 328, 329; synthesis, 330; ii, 271

Alcohol of Mars, 327

Alcohol of sulphur, 327

Aldehyde, preparation, ii, 271

Alembic, etymology, ii, 279

Alembroth salt, 243, 417; etymology, ii, 279

Alexander of Tralles, 216; Hiera, ii, 141

Alexandria library, 88, 98

Alexandrinus, Nicolas, 219

Alexipharmic, ii, 279

Alexiteria, ii, 279

Alfred the Great, letter to, 114, 131

Alga nostoch, 375

Algaroth’s powder, 381

Algarotti, note on, 381

Alhandal, ii, 279

Alkahest, Glauber’s 264; ii, 279

Alkali, etymology, ii, 280

Alkalies, early knowledge of, 324; Black on, 324

Alkalised ethiops, 351

Alkaloids, discovery of, 274; ii, 243; synthesis, ii, 265

Alkekengi, ii, 280