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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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2. Ie scems requisire ro Fluidier, chacchere be
SOTE OF raCanE Places incerspersed BetWNCen thC
Corpuseles ot the Fluid Bodr; For esse chere ill
nor De room for cach Parricle ro conrinue irs MO
tion and Asiration on the Surtaces oE che neigh
bourins Ones. FOr,
3. The Chies Condirion requilice 10 constiture 
Fluid Body is, That ies Particles be agitated vari
OuAY, and apart, cither by cheir omn proper Mo-
tion, or by Comechins et Substance which cumbles
ehem up and donn brirs Pallase chro chem. Thac
this Oualification chiess is requisire co Fluidies,
rou mas sacher trom char common experiment,
OF putring Pouder ot Alabatter, or of commen
Plaister oF Paris, sinely Sitied, in a Aac-borrom dV es-
sel over che Fire; For in a licile rime che der Poder
Wrill boyl like Wacer, and imirate all rhe Morions
Ot a boilins Liguor; ic will cumble rarioussy over
in great Wares likre thac, ic will bear Rirrins wict
a Srick or Laale like chac, wvirhout relistins, a5 ic
ill do wrhen cold; nay, il rou Air ic cronsly
near che side ot the Vessel, irs Wares will appa
renely dastr up acainst che Sides; buc ret it vou
cake any oF it out, and lay it spcedily on a piece ol
Whice Paper, rou Will sec ris nochins bur a drs
Powdet.
Sochat trom hence tis plain chere is a real ditse.
rence becreen a Fluid Body and a WWettins Liquor:
For noc only chis boilins Powder, and melced MC.
cals, bur che Air, AEtber, and eren Flame ic SelF
are property Fluid Bodies, tho noc moist Li-
quIOTS.
This Noble Geneleman Found allo, chac by
blowins the Smoak of Rosemarr into a Glats Pipe.
and chen holdins che Pipe (Wwhen Alled) upriphe
che Surtace of the Smoak ould accommodare ils
TelF t0 a level Simation; and Wrhich way soerer
vou inclined che Tube, the Superticies oF the
Snoak ould lic Parallel to the FTOriZON; and
wohen che Class was much enclined, vould run
alons ic likre Water.
Whence he inters, Thac in order 10 che rer-
dring a Bod Fluid, chere is no necd THaE IES PAFTS
Mould be s0 closets condensed as those oC Warer
atC.
Dr. LIdoK H AIS MCograpI. P. r2. hach a PIetI
Experiment or rvo ro prove chis AccounE oF Fluidi
EY, viz. thac of a DiM oF Sand set on a Drum-
head briskely bearen by the Sticks. Ox on the uxper
Stone oF a Mil, curmins Evisely round on the
(empey) lorver one; ic will in almost all respects
emplate the Proporries oF a Fluid BOdY. FOr a
heary Body Will immedrately sinke in it co the BOF-
tom, and a lishe one emerse t0 che FOP; CacH
Crain of Sand hach a constant vibrarins and dan-
cing Morion; and it a Folebe made in che Side ot
rhe Distr, che Sand will spin our lite Wacer.
al Fvacuactos et Coupe sctos LOM the
WVomb, or the Pores in chevazina. Blanchard.
FLVORES, a Nord used By the MOdeen MI-
necal WVrirers For such Cote Transparene Sparrs
kinds of Mineral Concretions, 25 are Frequert
Found amons Oars and Sconesin Mines and Cuar
ries.
FLOSEI, woten ihe DeckoEa Stip is eren trom
Scem 10 Stern wirhour any FalIS Or Risnes; cher
lay hee t ect 1ieo Tlast. lore ane ale.
FLOZ and Restux OE che Sea: Sce Tide.
FTOZL- POWDERS, Or 25the French call chem
Fondants, are Powders prepared to Facilicare rhe
Fution ot the haider Mecals, and ro melt Cars in
Order 10 discorer wrhac proxorrion oE Mecal chey
hold or contain.
Ponder of antimony alone is a very so0d Flur
in many cales, and by ic vou may readily mele
Tron or Sccel in a Crucible, wich an ordinars
Charcoal Fire.
Nr. Boyle gires an Accoune ol a Flux Poder
he used, Wvtich as compoled ot Tarcar, Sulphur,
and Arsenick.
FPOZION, che Came wich Catarrh.
FLOZTONS. NIT. Tsaac Nemton, in his Admi
rable Princip. Phil. Mach. p. 250, lays dovn ehis
Lemma.
That the Nomene es an generated dvantity, is
equat ro the Moments of al the several senera-
tins Terms multiplied into the Indices os their
Pomers, aud into cheir Coefficients continvally.
Let a,b, c, _C. represent the Momenes oF ary
Ouantiries A, B, C, COc. increasins or decreasins
by a perpetual Fluxion; then ill the Moment Or
Mutarion oF the Rectanele A B, DC A B -] a B;
and ot che Content OF A B C, che Momenewill bC
ABC] ABC - aBC; and OF ThC POIVerS
A, A, A=, the Momenes vill BC 2 a A, 3e A,
+ a A; 2nd che WOMEnES OE A, N, A3, d, X
t d 2 1 et7 2 a L2 233aA 13
2et etbrris
And generallr, ThC MIOMENE OF anY POIVeF, Sup-
pose A, will be a A m ec.
Fhe Demonttracion es vhieh Lemma, is etio.
A S F
Suppole any Rectanole as A B, macie Ot CHCICd
Sed by a perpetualMorion, and from che Sides A P
a and
=b. Then ic will Rand A - = a and B
Multiplr chem into cach orher, and enere will arise
A B = = 2B =- = b A -) =+ a b
Suppose als0 Aand B encreased by che halEMo-
MenES, 25 A ] = a, and B -) = b; and chat chole
thus ausmenced Ouanciries rere mnltiplicd by onc
anocher, chen there will arile AB -1
a B
 A b- = a b for che Product: From evhich sub.
ductins che FOrmer Rectangle AB.
3 a B.
b A - = ab, che Disserence Wvill be a B-].
Ab, 8. F. D. Wtichis che At Inctance.
et L2 Ld D = C Ct. alo Ma e)
Sires CC, Ox A BC, and irs Moment by che last
Case, Will BC p C -]. C C. Thar is (iF inscead 0
C and 5, Vou had put A B and a B =) = Ab) aBC
I= ABC =)- ABc. And chus ic will erer be in
che Ouanricies produced by coninual Mulciplica
vet ai mequar iacor
C2 1d d
FLOOR Abus, Or Fluor Vterinus, is a concinu-