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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. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — ⚗️ Alembic or 🏫 School?