athanor means A furnace or stove designed and used to maintain uniform heat, primarily used by alchemists. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.
Why this word is great
ATHANOR — [Noun] A self-feeding furnace used by alchemists to maintain a constant, uniform heat for prolonged operations of transmutation. From Arabic التَنُّور (at-tannūr, "the baker's oven"), elevating a humble, domestic vessel into one of cosmic ambition. Unlike a tandoor, which denotes a specific, culinary oven for baking naan, or a forge, which implies the violent, percussive shaping of iron, the athanor is an instrument of patient, self-regulating constancy. It is the low, unblinking eye of heat in a shadowy cellar; the silent keeper of a year-long distillation; the sealed heart of a process too slow for the sun to measure—a mechanical womb for a philosophy that was always waiting to be born.
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- A furnace or stove designed and used to maintain uniform heat, primarily used by alchemists.“You may also be inſtructed, That when you are diſtilling of Aqua fort. and that the Coals in the Athanor are almoſt gone out (which happens hardly in 10 or 11 hours) then lift up the Cover from the Athanor, make it full again with Coals and cover it, elſe the Fire will go out, and all will be cold, as Oportunity it ſelf will teach thee and make thee to remember.”