SC - Al-Cohol
CorwynWdwd@aol.com
CorwynWdwd at aol.com
Sun Nov 15 05:02:42 PST 1998
Stefan li Rous wrote:
>
> Corwyn said:
>
> >It is refereed to by Moslem alchemists as Al-Cohol MiLady...
>
> This sounds like a urban legend. Referances or quotes, please.
> Dates? Or can someone tell me what that translates into in whatever
> language it is in?
According to my fair-to-middling desktop dictionary, the word is:
(ML < Ar. Al kohl), orig. powder of antimony, meaning changed in
European usage.
Considering that Arab alchemists are believed to have invented
distillation, too, this does seem fairly likely.
Adamantius
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