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Alembic Emoji ⚗️

What ⚗️ means

A round glass vessel with a short and thick cylindrical spout, placed over a black tripod stand while holding 1/4th of sea-greenish liquid. The color of the liquid would vary on different platforms.

The ⚗️ Alembic emoji represents a distillation alembic or a beaker that's generally used for vaporization in science experiments. It can signify science as a whole, chemistry, boiling point, and gaseous state of matter.

How and when to use it

  • Distillation is essentially a scientific way of purifying liquid. So, you could use ⚗️ either in scenarios that are about the very aspect of distilling liquid or purification in any way. For instance, "I totally need a bath after watching that ⚗️".
  • Similarly, ⚗️ works metaphorically for the concept of purification or a sense of striving to be pure too. For example, "Cleanse your heart and your thoughts will follow ⚗️".
  • ⚗️ is used in chemistry (ahem). If you're using 'chemistry' in a literal or figurative framework, you may include this emoji. Like, "All these catalysts and nothing could speed up our chemistry ⚗️" or "Nice work. But, I think there's some chemistry missing between the elements ⚗️".
  • Use ⚗️ while talking about the 'boiling point' of something or someone.
  • On a general note, ⚗️ would pretty much fit into a science-based context. In fact, introducing this emoji anywhere would be an invariable reference to science.

Other Names

  • ⚗️ Beaker
  • ⚗️ Distillation Flask
  • ⚗️ Distillation Alembic
  • ⚗️ Round Bottom Flask
  • ⚗️ Glass Round Bottom Flask
  • ⚗️ Round Bottom Container
  • ⚗️ Vaporizing Flask

The lowdown

Category
Objects › science
Codepoints
U+2697 U+FE0F
Emoji version
Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes
:alembic: GitHub
Keywords
alembic, chemistry, tool

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens.

alembic on Apple
Apple
alembic on Google
Google
alembic on Twitter/X
Twitter/X
alembic on Facebook
Facebook
alembic on Microsoft
Microsoft

⚡ Quick round

Which joined the keyboard first — ⚗️ Alembic or 🏫 School?

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