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| | distillazionee |
 | | The still was made up of a bottom jar, the "cucurbita" (Latin for pumpkin), or boiler in which the raw materials to be distilled were placed and the capital or helmet or bell where the alcoholic vapors, rising from the boiler, were condensed. |
 | | It is interesting that the top spherical container was called an àmbiq, or ambix, in Arabic word that over the centuries first turned into alembic or alambic, and then to alambicco, or lambicco, the modern Italian word for a still. |
 | | He refers, in particular, to the top spherical container or "alambicco" (still) which he thinks should be enlarged, in order to make cooling and hence the condensing of the alcoholic vapors easier, thus improving the yield of the apparatus. |
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