Geber is a 5 letter English word.
You can make 37 anagrams from letters in Geber (beegr).
Which Geber knew very well: the compleat calcination of Sol, is most difficult: He renders the causes thereof.
For every private thing by its proper humidity doth perform nothing but vitrificatory fusion, saith Geber.
The word Baurach occurs in Geber and the other early Alchemistic writings, but there is nothing to prove that it was modern borax.
It would not be surprising to find all the Alchemists subsequent to Geber mentioning acids.
The first mention is in the work attributed to Geber, as stated above, of date prior to the 14th Century.
The term antimonium seems to have been first used in Latin editions of Geber published in the latter part of the 15th Century.
Geber was until recent years considered to be an Arab alchemist of a period somewhere between the 7th and 12th centuries.
On the strength of these works, Geber has ranked high as a chemist.
Whether gibber comes from Geber, as Dr Johnson contends, must remain in doubt.
The first certain mention of saltpetre (sal petrae) is in Geber.