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Wikipedia's article on the retort, the bulb shaped vessel with a downward bent neck used in distillation since antiquity, is a community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication. It is reliable for the vessel's standard definition and its long use in alchemical and early chemical apparatus, and less reliable for any specialist or contested claim about a specific tradition's use of the device. Use it for the vessel's ordinary definition; a claim about its role in a particular alchemical practice needs a dedicated history of science source.
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Wikipedia's article on the retort, the bulb shaped vessel with a downward bent neck used in distillation since antiquity, the lower tier reflecting that it is a community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication, reliable for the vessel's standard definition and its long use in alchemical and early chemical apparatus, and less reliable for any specialist or contested claim about a specific tradition's use of the device. NotesWikipedia's article on Retort. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Retort (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retort
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This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Alchemical Apparatus, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
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