CHEMICAL WORDS. “The new nomenclature left little space for speaking of the non-material aspects of substances. It took particular aim at the term “spirit,” with its connotations of immaterial transcendence. In its place, they proposed “alcohol,” reviving an Arabic term derived from Egyptian kohl which had referred generally to any chemical decoction.”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00026980.2020.1867786
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022