Alkahest

Al·ka·hest

Alkahest

n.

[LL. alchahest, F. alcahest, a word that has an Arabic appearance, but was probably arbitrarily formed by Paracelsus.]

The fabled “universal solvent” of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies.

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