Question
This woman invented an early double-boiler, now culinarily referred to as this woman’s namesake bath. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this first-century woman, who Zosimos of Panopolis regarded as the first alchemist in the Western world. She is known for a namesake alchemical axiom stating “One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth.”
ANSWER: Mary the Jewess [accept Mary the Prophetess; accept Maria the Copt; accept Maria Hebraea; accept Maria Prophetissa; accept Māriyya al-Qibṭiyya; prompt on Mary alone]
[10e] According to the Byzantine chronicler George Syncellus, Mary was a teacher of this Greek “laughing philosopher” who alongside his teacher Leucippus devised atomic theory.
ANSWER: Democritus [or Dēmókritos]
[10m] Mary also invented the kerotakis, a vaporizer that employed this process and which was later revised into the Soxhlet extractor. This process is named for a “thrice-great” Greek god.
ANSWER: Hermetic sealing [accept vacuum sealing; accept airtight sealing]
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Summary
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| CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UBC | Thompson et al. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |