Hypertext Webster Gateway: "empyreuma"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Empyreuma \Em`py*reu"ma\, n. [NL., from Gr. ? a live coal
covered with ashes, fr. ? to set on fire, fr. ?: cf. F.
empyreume. See {Empyreal}.] (Chem.)
The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of
decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in
close vessels.
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