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n. - A furnace that feeds itself so as to maintain a uniform temperature.

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  • These are the athanor -- immortal but not invincible -- and many dream of the day they can live openly.
  • Alchemy contributed to this appraisal of the vital cycle that was thought to be realized in the alchemist's oven (athanor); and the incorruptible nature of the starry...
  • On the contrary, the jumble of experiences and impressions which fell to the lot of the author as to us all had assuredly been placed in the athanor of art, in that...
  • Plate 6, fig. A, shows an athanor (or digesting furnace) and a couple of digesting vessels.
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