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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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SOLYENT, che same wich Disolvent, beins
any. Corrolive Liguor, Or Menstruum, chac wil
dissolve Bodies.
SOLOTIO Chymica, is a resolvins any B0d
into is Chrmical Principles; Wrhich are, Spirir
Salt, Sulptiur, Parrh and NV ater.
SOL.DFIO conrinui, is a Dissolution ot cheV
niey and Continuiey oFthe PartS: A5 in Wounds
VICerS, Fractures, C8C.
SOLOTION, in Machematicks, isthe ansiver
ins oF anx Ouection, or che Relolurion oF ans
Problem.
SOLOTTONE seodi Miliris Parliamenti, anc
Saurione feodi Burgens Parliamenti, are Wrirs
Wvhrereby Knighus oF che Stire and Bu
recover cheir Allovance, il it be denied.
esses ma
SDMMMEKLOOS, or Slcepins Medicines, are
Tuch which consictins oF Faetid Sulphureous Parrs
disipare ane exrineuis che Animal Spirits, anc
hinder etieir Inerease, evtence Follows Slecp. Blan-
chard.
SOPTISTTCATED, che same wich countertei
ced, debased, or adulreraced; and is uluaily (pO
Ken oF Wines, Chymical Prepararions, (9C. Whe
they are noc imade sood in cheir Rinds, chro the
Ararice oF che Compoler
SOPORITEROVS. Sec somnis
Ous
SORITES, is a POrE OF Argumene composed o
Several Propolirions, ot Wvtich che second depend
uxon che first, the chird uxon che second, and sc
Forvard.
SORRO, is uneasiness in cheMind, upon che
chouxhe oF a Cood lost, which mighe have Beer
enjordlonser; or che sense ol a present Rvil
SODND, scemsto be produced by chesubciler
and more Ptheriat Parrs of che Air, beins formee
and moditied into a grear manz (mail Mases 0
Concextures, exaetly similar in Figure; vticti
Contextures are made br che Collision and peculia
Mocior ot the Sonorous Body, and Aying oA froi
ic, are distused all around in etie Medium, anc
chere do aHect rhe Orsan oF our Far in one anc
che lame manner.
Sound, Allo appears hot eo be produced u c
Air, s0 much by che Cwitiness, a5 by che verrtrc
guent Repercusions, and reciprocal Strakings ot
The Sonorous Body.
NII. Saac Vemion demonstrates, (in Prop. 43
Lib. 2. OF his Principles;) Thac Sounds, because
eher arise fromthe Fremulous Norion ot Bodies
are nothing else buc the Propagarion of rhe Pulseo
ehe Air. And ehis he saich, is contirmed by tho
Creat Premors chacstrone and grave Sounds excir
in Bodies round abour, a5 ehe Ringins oF BCIIS
toise oF Cannon, (9c.
And in anolster place he concludes, lhat sounds
do noc contile I the Morion of any sther, Or finet
Air, buc in che Agirarion of che Whole common
Rir; Because he found by Fixperimenes, Thac che
Motion of Sound depended on che Densiry oF ch
Wrhole dir.
moves 968 Fcet, Enslimtr, in a Sccond of Time
P25. 370.
On an ExpCriMENEOF Pathet Mersennus, in his Par
monicts, thac an excended Scrins mada 104 Vibra
tiont in 2 Second, wehen ic as an Vnisone vict
theC, fa, Et Pipe oF an Organ, Wrhole Lerigth Was
A Fooc open, and 2 FoOc Aop d, pas. 37.
Why Ehe Sound ceales alvars evich the Morion
OF che Sonorous Body; and Why chey reach etie
Par equally Coon, Wrhen tar oH, or near: Flesem
in Prop. 48. Cor. Wrtere he prores, ThactheNum.
ber oF the Pulses propasaced, is alvars che veri
Tame ich che Number ot che Vibrations ot chie
Tremulous Body, aud char ches are nor by als
means mulciplied a5 cher g0 From ic.
The follomins Proxerties have bech veserved os
Sound; in many os which, there is a near Re
lation betrocen it and Lisht. FOF
I. AS Lighe acquaims che Cye irti che distes
rene Oualicies, Magnicudes, and Figures ot B0.
dies, (0 Sound in likre manner informs the Far ot
many ot che lame Thinss, inche sonorous Bodr.
2. AS Lishe preleny ranistres onthe Remoral, or
Foral Declipse of rhe Radiarins Body, 50 a Soune
peristres assoon asthe Vndularion oE che dir ceales
which Morion boch produces and preserrect al
Tounds.
3. The Dittusion ot Sound From che Sonorous
Body is Spherical, likre che Radiarion of Lixhe
From itS Cenrre.
4. A ereacer Sound drovns a lets, 25 a Breatet
Lishe Fcclipses 2 lel5.
SF0o Grear, Loud, or Shrill a Sound is Orentive
and Injurious co the Far, a5 t00 great, and brighe a
Ligluis torhe Fye.
6. Sound al(o (tike LighE) moves sensibly FrOm
Place ro Place, tho nochins near (o Twitr as Lighu
Tris Reflected likre Lighe trom all hard Bodies; ic
is hindred avd retracted, by passino chro a Denter
Nedium. Bur ic ditters From Lighe in rhis, that
Whereas Lishr is alivars propasared in Righe
Lines, the Norion ot Sound is almost alivares
Curvilinear.
7. Sound also ditters much trom Lighe in chis,
chac it is very much weatened by Winds, and such
likre Morions OF the Air, wtich yet have no Ffect
on Lighe. For Mersennnus. Computes, thac ehe
Diamerer of che Sphere of a Sound heard acainst
the Wind is near a chird Parr less, chan Wwhen com-
ing wich che Wind.
R A very Small quantity oF Body, serres Eore-
Rect the Rays of Lighe: as we perceire manitest
Iy in (mall peices of Lo0kins-glasCS, (9c. BuI
there appears to be necessarr a Bodr of much larger
Dimentions to Return a Sound, or romake an P.
Cho.
SOMNONI. Sec summons
Sc
Laxative
SOLOTIV
Ese tound by Bo0d Experiments, Thac a Sonne
Supposins che Air, by the Pulse which cause
Sound, eo be in a Morion, like chac oF the WV acer
utien ies Waves roril; he calculares che Breadch ot
che Pulse, or che Distance berween WVave ane
trave, eobe in the Sonnds ot at opespes, dor
~ AS 10 Rehexion OF Sonnds: IB NBIETDC
thac if one Hatiet dedt the Retlectins Body, ane
the Sm de hec vet) salt oH, cho an lccho be
produced, vet ic cannor be heard; becaule che Di
scet and HCeAex Sourl, enter the Par almost au
the same rime: Bur then the Sound appears to DC
Aronger than ordinarr, and lasts longer: s special.
Is iohen che Refexion is vade scom divers Bodieo
bie chc Lenerh ot chose Pipec, vohict he Broune