ALEMBROTH, in the writings of the alchemists, a word used for a sort of fixed alkaline salt, which had the power of the famous alkahest, in dissolving bodies, opening the pores of most or all known substances, and
Alembrith thence, as well as by destroying sulphurs, promoting
the separation of metals from their ores.—It is also
used for a compound of corrosive mercury and sal am-
moniac.