"do you think we should go to Persia to get some alcohol?" "Nah man let's just go for a

Salix Babylonika

Klinotaxis

when i think 'i should get alcohol', i think 'let's go to an islamic state'

glennmagusharvey

Ultimately the word is from the Arabic كحل (al-kuḥl, "kohl, a powder used as an eyeliner"). Al- is the Arabic definitive article, equivalent to the in English; alcohol was originally used for the very fine powder produced by the sublimation of the natural mineral stibnite to form antimony sulfide Sb₂S₃ (hence the essence or "spirit" of the substance), which was used as an antiseptic, eyeliner, and cosmetic (see kohl (cosmetics))
According to this theory, the meaning of alkuhul would have been first
extended to distilled substances in general, and then narrowed to
ethanol.^[36]

Klinotaxis

if alchemists are so clever why can't i buy smirnoff in saudi arabia

that's the real incoherence of the p hilosophers if you ask me