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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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5. An Intution ot an Flandtul ot Diced Lignum)
Nexhriticum in 4 PoundoF Sprins Water alI NighE
will sive corhe Liquor chacs poured oH inco a cleat
Otals Vial, a Colour almost like chac oF Gold pro.
vided vou hold ux the Vial becween vour Fye and
che Lishe; bur nhen rou hola ic trom che Liphr
(o chac pour Fye be becween che Liphe and ic, ic
vill appear ot a decp and lovely Blue Colour
irtrich tine Blue Colour a few drops ot any Acid
Liquor will immediarels makre dilappear, and a-
bour 25 many of Oyl ot Tartar per Deliquium Or
any such six d Altalicare Liquor will apain re
Atore ic.
6. Fvery one knows thac Red Role Leares hold
à Wvhile in ehe Smoak of Sulphur will curn pale s
and ver it vou intuse ola dilcoloured Role Lcaves
thac hare been lons dried in a GlaIs oF Wacer.
ic wilt scarce impare any Colour r0 che Liquor
bur on che droppins in a due Ouanciey oF Spirit ol
Sulphur, che Liquor will ruen inco a lovely Red
. A Tincture oF Red Rose Lcaves dravn wict
WVacer and a licele Oyl of Virriol wvas put into2
clear Vial abour halt full of fair Wacer, in such a
proportion as chac ehie Mixcure Was very Red, buF
Ver Fransparene; chen inco ic was drope leilurely
a licile Spirir oE Vrinc, and che Mincure beine
Maked, exhibired a fine preenim Bluc
8. IF into a Spoontul OF the InFUSION OF the Pou
der ot Loguood in Wacer, Wrhich will be Red
von deop rro or chree Drops oF Spiric ot Vrine
it will produce a lovely Purple; bur il che Wacer
ivhrich dren che Tincture trom che Loqood, had
been impregnaced wich Spirir ot Salc, the DropSOF
Spiric ot Orine, instead ot Purple, vould hare
produced a Xellon Colour.
9. THECC OF TOUT DEONS OE OyI OL Partar per
Deliguium dropr inco a Spoontui or cvo oF clear
Solurion ot sublimere in common Wacer, choueh
ihe Liquors are borh colourtels, ill in a erice
produce 2 decp Zellon Colour; Wrhich by deop.
pine in four or sive Drops ot Oyl or Arons Spirie
of Vicriol may be a5 soon destrored and made 10
vanist, and by purcins in more ot cheoyl oF Tar
car recovered again, (00. The Fribe ot Lixivi
acc Salrs are knovn and discinguisted by chis Tes
ihac ches wvill alI produce chis Tellon Colour,
irhen mix d duly wich a Solurion ot Sublimare.
1c. Dissolve Filines oF Copper in g0od Spirit
ot Fermented Vrine, the Solurien will be deeple
Blue; bur it inco 2 Spoontull oF chis vou drop =
Or 3. drops oF OyIoE Virriol, che Ceruleous Colour
vilt immediarels vaniste, and che L IqUOF BecOmC
clear 25 Rock- WWater.
rP. IFchrec rimes irs weiphr ot t A TuTOL
be, in a Olals Rerorr placed in Sand, dravn ot
From a Guancity ot 500d Ouicksilver, ic will leave
a Calus 25 white as Snom; wtrich ver as (oon 25 c
ver common Wacer is poured on, ic euens into one
ot che brixhrest and loreliest vellon Colours in che
Worid.
(2. Distolve Camphire III MI OT. VICIOI, and
ir will impare a decp and almost Opakre Red rO
che Menstruum, choush it selF be Whice, and che
2. Lapis smemtus, suxpoled eo be the lame
wich che common Blue Bict
Zutos wtich is tiee trom C0ld Veins, by Cal-
Litmose, lupposed ro be che fuice ot a Plane
Menstruum, iE 800d, clear and eransparent. And File or RoW oF TroopS, Or oF BaB∞aBC OF an Ar
it inco che solurion vou pour a licele Wacer, che my in As March. Lo march in 2 Column. is 10
Red Colour will vanim in a crice, che Menstruum march a greac def, Ot _ a Tone FIle, instead ot
Brou pale, and elie Camphire be recorered again matiins a lateetont. A ats alee  
in ies pristine FOrm.
3. Oltramarine, made OE che blvest Lapis La
Cinallo
Smalt, made ot Zaffer and Pot. astres calein d
6
cogecher in a Cilals tulstace
. Indico, by lome laid lerbe a kind ot Mud ad.
herine co che Froch aboue Reeds in Inaia
Orhers Cays ic is a Plane like Rosemary callec
nil, gromins in cambaia, wotrich is gacheree
and dryed, iben vecred rich fair Wacer, ane
bearen c0 a Mud; this Operarion beins re
to bc burne Rice.
Dealed, l Buts d add sicted tor usc
7. Indian inke. whose Composicion is suppolee
8. Ceruss or Psimichium, is che R uHt oE LCae
made by a Vapordus C’alcinarion
D. Masticot, is 2 kind oE improver C alx OFZ in
10. Cambodia Or Cutta Gambae, is suppoled rc
trom che indies
IF. Oker, 2 COrF OF LNatUTaI LarTH.
12. Orpiment, a lal Mtammable Mineral, justi
rolive Oualicy
13. Umber, 2 natire LalC.
 La au Made M CHharse or burne Leae
beche inspissared suice ot a Plant, rhaE cormes
ranted amonest Possons LOE IIS ExTTeaM COr
by a Reverberacory Calcinarion, or ot Cerus
Red. Lead Colour.
burne in open Fire
puc on a elacrer over che Fire, which mult
be continually Airred rill ic has acquireda
15. Durne Ober, is che common Zellon Oler
16. Cinnabar ox Vermiilion, There atC EVO TorIS
Nacire, Orche Minium ot che Ancienes, whict
is a Mtinera( chac vields Duick. silver; Where
OF, and oF Sulphur ic chieAty consitts; ic is
tound in the Mines oF istria
The Factitious Cinnabar, is chac wxtich we non
cury and Sulphur.
17. Carmin, made et Cochineat
ule; and is made by a Sublimarion ot Mer-
18. Late, is made of Floctes dyed, or savinse
et Scarlet. Cloth, Or oE che Cochineet Insect, 0
elle et Rermes-Berries, ielt Lllicture beins
pcalete  actacte Ot Hoch. Alum.
extracted wich a Lec oF Pot- ashes, and chen
AILCL IHC sae Maler a Lan May be made
ot a Planc or Florver: Phere is also anocher
Tort ot Lake made ol CMLac, by excract.
InB IS Linecure Wich Vrim
de  nobodus id lll clla ut a elce
wtich looks like dry a Boba; I volteno
ouc es leveral places in che Cast. ates.
Places oF Fngland.
20. Farch Redale o1 auille, tound in manis
2T. Lamp- black. made oF So0t oF Rosin ox Ditet
burne in places buite on puroxose For ic, 1h2L
COLDMEI, in ihe Are Military, is che lone
reex in chie Smoak.
ruvo, chrec, or more Columns, accordine as the
Et te
AC ATALOOD F of che Simple Coloutt.
COTDMN, in Archirecture, is propert a
anisto rrvicer clade et lihalte alte mn oume bhB Cplinder or parr oF a Pillar erhich is
Ct li C0bCtieto
Cround will allor, and che General lees expe
eatted ihe dhase. Trunte, Fust, che Scapuo qie