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ebullire
1. To boil.
2. The following image is one of the most common signs for water through the ages, but it is said that it also symbolized boiling.
ebullire image.

This symbol appears both in modern ideography, as an alchemical sign and as an ancient Greek symbol. In eighteenth-century chemistry, it could mean coquere (to cook; to prepare food) or ebullire (to boil).

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