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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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A5 the Difference of the Semi-arameters of the perace che dil Erom che Liquor in che Reccirer
ePaim in che teac
Dy a Tunnel, ox a Filere, and in a genele FTear
tree che Spirir From lome ot its Phleem, (tho
Ehis is nOE alvars necessarY.) Wich chis, helaith
he drer Tinctures noc only trom Crude Corals.
but even From the Lapis Flamatites, and Cranates.
urpordered; nar also trom Diamonds and Ru-
bies. Tec by no means was this (0 Corrosire 2
Liquor as Aqua fortis, Or as the other Acid MLen-
Fromhencetheretore we may learn to suspend
Our ANenE aS tO that bold APertion oF some Phi-
AH LOm hence the Word Menstruum hach sicians and Nacuralists, Thac eis impolsible any
Sugar, 
Medicine can be Found out, thac Mall disolve
the Sione in the Bladder Or Kidners: buE WhaE
must also corrode and destroy the Vesselschrouetr
Wohich ic passes in the Body. For there are ma-
ny Menstruums effectually Corrolire, that will
nOE Work ac aHL on some Bodies; which vet
Otter chines, tho of no such Corrosire Nacure
ro che Fongue or the Touch, vill readily dis-
SOlre. Thus Ouiekslver will dissolre Gold, 1h0
OF FrAOIMenES OF C0ld, (9C. Will readily desces chere be no sensible ApPCaraNCC OF any COrrO-
sivenels in the NerCuEY, Cither to the FIngeF, OL
erento the Fonoue; and vet neither Aqua for-
tis, nor Oil oE Vicriol, nor Spiric oF Nitre, vil
Corrosre Menstruums in Nature. Cold Water
vill distolve the Whire oF an FgG; Wrhich the
Purest Spirir OF Wine ill nor diride, buc congu
lare; 25 Will also the ACid LiguOES, Spirir OE
sist Or Ferard the DelCenE OF any heary Body Salr, and Oil OF Vicriol. Thus also Common
chrough them: And this Rehstance is (certerrs Oil ill dissolre Brimstone, tho ic appear (0
Ceneral Disolrent, Aqua fortis, ill noc touch
Brimttone. Mans more Instances oF ehis Na-
cure miphe be given; by wrtich ic appears, thac
Menstruums do not operare by vireue ot any
Fore eis plain verr small Bodies will have much manifest Oualier, suchi as Fleac, Moisture, Or
eren Acidiey ic selF, buc racter by some Mecha
nical and peculiar Pirness rhat there is Berween
ttre Strape, Bulk, Solidier, (90. OF the CorpuL
eles boch ot ic and che Body ro bc disolved.
MIEASTRDOM Peracurum, is a Menstruum
mencioned by MP. Boyle, and made by dramins
MIENSORABIEIEY, is un Apcitude in 2
MIENSORATIODI, Or Meaturins, is to find
the Supersicial Area, or Solid Content, oF al
Surtaces and Bodies. The Rules eo do which
MEPTITTCAT. Exhalations, are poisonons
ornoxious ones, illuins our of che Farch. Thele
haVe FOE Che FamOUS GrOTTA de C an, ReAF PuZ
zoli, abour ruo Miles trom Naples; wrtich is
C0 called, because its poisonous Sceams rill KilI
, land no doube anx ocher Animals) it
Convexity and Concavity, ro the Semi-diameter os
the Concavity; S0 is the Diameter os the Convexit)
to the Focal Lenet
MENOPEOTA, is a A
affectine one Cngle Llacc
MIENSTRDDM. The Chrmical Word FOr
a Dissolvins Liguor. Ther save ic this Name,
because Tome Chrmists pretend chat the Com-
pleat Dissolurion of a Mixc cannor be done in Aruums.
The Phitosophical Month
Je(s Lime chan 40 Days; Which Period ther calI
come  DC ilc General lerm tor any VIol.
vent; and als Liquor Winen W cacs c
Tolre aI the Parrs ot any Body, is called a pro
per Menstruum For thac Body: AS Aqua Recalis
is for Gold; Aqua Forris, Or Spirit oF Nirre, F0r
most ocher Mecals; Common Water For Sale, Or
And here it may noc be amils ro sire a Solu-
tion ot one Ditticuler, viz. Why srear Lumps
2o che bol et che Cilals; and ver when cher
COme EB DC CUE Ox divided I reLs aLuL
ricles ot AtOms, tho OF the same LDCCIHCK CF2-
tvins, and bc suspended in the Menstruum.
In order to the accounting for whic, Me may
Frst consider, thar the Pares ot no fluid can DC
(o calisr leparable, buc thac ther ill a lile re-
vier wrtch those greater Lumps, vec thele Mail touch this Mecal, tho ther are lome ot the most
paribus) RiII proportionable r0 the Surtace OF) Potr and (moorh upon che Pongue, and will nOL
the descending Bodies. But the Surtaces ot B0- dissolre s0 muchi as an Fgg-sell; and vet thaE
ales do by no means increale or decreale in the
Came Proportion as their Solidiries do: For the
Solidey encreales as che Cube, buc the Surtace
onl) as isle Square ot che Diamerer. Where-
laret surtaces, in Proporcon co cheir Solid Con
tent, illau larger Bodies will; and consequenet,
usen ches grow exceedins small, may easils a
conceired to be buored up by the Fluid.
Indeed ir doch Cometimes happen that a Nen-
struum will dissolre and keep suspended in it,
alel.
withour letrine them emersé to the cop, theof Spirit of Nitre sereral rimes From Burcer or
Parrs of a Body lighcet in specie than ic; 25  Antimony. Ie saith, thac by the FTelp oF chis
thar Liquor ell minsled wich Oil oF. Vicriol; in a ter Flours, 1o elerate a 800d Ouancier ot
Wch is an liffect noc acgrecable ro che LaWrs ot Crude CoId.
Hydrostaricks: Bur then it may be considered,
that there may be some such peculiar Pexture in Body, Whereby it may be apply d’or contormd
the Pares ot the Camphire, as mas makie ehem to a cerrain Meature.
P0 join or adhere ro chie Parrs of rhe Oil, 25 char
tho hearier, vex chey Mall noc be impelled up
+o the Surtace, at least for a Time: WVtich We
ME. Boyle mentions a Menstruum Wrhich he ex-
paY, even on Gla(s it selF, and do many chings
rhac Aqua forris consd noc do. Ic vas thusmade:
Cur Bronn FTonthold-Bread, Cither OE WVHCaE
Or RYC, (tho the Rre is best) into Slices; and
ClaIS RerONT, and draw OH in 2 Sand FUrnaCC (SFCAMIS.
by deprees ot rire, wotar will core Vel. SC.
wohen Camphire is dissolred into a Liquor, and herras abic, without a verr riolene Fire, and
sec is che Cale, in some meature, of an accu- as exactly as is postible, rou will sind under che
rare aud well. proporrioned Mixture ot Oil and Names ot che lereral Fisures and Solids.
racted Erom Bread alone, thac vould ork on the Larins uled ro call Mephites; Wvhence comet
Bodies more compact than many hard Minerals, the Tralian Mosera, which is the Perm they
rhen cher are a licele dried, Fill avich chem a held lons orer ic, and wrichin che Scench oE cho