jabir ibn hayyan

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1. Jabir ibn Hayyan, 8th-century a.d., Arab alchemist.

noun

1. ?721–?815. Arab alchemist, whose many works enjoyed enormous esteem among later alchemists, such as Geber

noun

1. Latinized form of Jabir, assumed in honour of Jabir ibn Hayyan by a 14th-century alchemist, probably Spanish: he described the preparation of nitric and sulphuric acids