Definition of "azoth" []

• Mercury considered in alchemy to be the primary source of all metals. (noun)

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• "As I often do, I combined recipes from many sources into one, and this time I struck azoth."
• "He told me you'd urged him to give me the azoth, and said something I'd forgotten until now."
• "Ragged fire from the slug guns ended in a choking cloud of plaster dust and an ear-splitting roar as most of the west wall fell, severed from its foundations by the azoth Silk had received from Doctor Crane and given to Maytera Mint."