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be a mixture ot lome lola and orher Mecals togc
cher; or else some oE them under che Disguile o
Cold.
The Trick oF cumins Cinnabar into Silver, is pre
sratisie ic in a Crucible wich grannulated Silver:
The Crucible is placed in a grear Fire, and astet
duc time for ies Calcination, ther cake ic OH; ane
pourins che Matrer our, ther ceer che Cinnabar
curn d into real Silver, tho the Silver Grains ap
Pear inthe Number and Form ther ivere pur into
Ehe Crucible. Buc the Mifchiet oF all is, Wrhen
roû come iohandle che Grains ot Silver, vou find
them nochins bur lighe friable Bladders Wwhich will
crumble ro pieces berreen rour Fingers: The Sil
ver is almost all oF ir sor in and incorporared wich
chie Cinnabar, and the vrhole reistis no more, nO
indeed (o much, a5 ic did when ic was AxA pUE in
ro che Crucible.
Due co sire vou somertine on che betrall ol
Transmutation, MIF. Boyle EalUs oF his ovn separa.
rins trom commonMercurr, near a Fourch pare ol
ies weiphe in clear Liquor, Scep. Chym. Pa5. 134
and rells us also, chat evo Friends of his did, by
presins Mercurr in a skiltully manased Fire, turn
ic almost Weiohe for Weighe inco Warer; bucches
cellus nor in cirher Experiment, che Specifck Cra
vits of che produced Wacer, nor ot che remainins
uneransmured Ma(SOF Mercury; wrhich untelsonc
kne, chere is no judgins ot che Realiey oL che
Transmucation.
In his Second Fssay on the succcedins Experiments
he rellS uS, ThaEDF. R. a Person tar boch trom
the Temprarion and Custom oF Lvins, afured
him he did once lighe on a kind oF Aqua forris with
Which he did dirers rimes drav a Volatile Tincture,
wrhich cousd and did curn Silver into Colu; and
chac out of an Ounce oF Cold he drew as much ot
But Whac char noble Author relates in anorhe
Place of che lame Book, abour che Pransmutarior
Ot Water into Farth; I judge chemore considera
ble, because he made ule of tsydiostaricks, 1O Cx.
amine his Fransmured Matter, viz
Thac rain Wacer beine distilled. or re distilles
(by 2 Friend oE his) mans rimes over asain (near
200Tines) did alrer each Distillarion, leare ac che
Borrom oE the Cla(S Body, a rhite Farth in E
considerable Ouantier; and this was aHforded (Paict
Mr. Boyle) more plenritully in che latrer Distillari
Ons, chan in the first.
This he Beleired co be a cerrain Ouanrirs oE
Water, actually curned into Barth, and ic was
abore tvice ashearr (Specitcally) as common WV a-
ter, and vas ot (o sixt a NNacure, chac ic lay in a
red hor Cruciblefor a considerable Fime, Wichour
beins diministred in Weisl, or emierins any
manner oF Smonk.
Ile cakres norice al(o, that an Ounce of Wacer
reilded six Drams of Porrder, a considerable Ouan-
tier of Wacer Aill remainine behind; and chac the
Clals in which ic was distilled, was noc inche least
sensibly Damased chereby. Zec this great Chy-
mist was noc wirtiour some Scruples abour ihe FX
DETIMEHE FOT,
Firstu Fe Was nor Parissiec chac che remainine
Wacer, Was noc Lieticer chui belere ihe Di
Ailation.
Seconaly, He as nor altured chac no PartS ol
che 6lalo Vestet vere Ditolred, or Incoiporated
wich ic.
Thiraty. Nor Whecher Warer verruly an Flomo-
Geneal Body; for if it be, he chinks ic Disficule
noc Impossible co conceire thAE it can BC
Fransnured: For hou con (saith he) che bare Con-
rencion ot ihe Pars oE a Lluid umO à COnCICte
alter che Specitick Graviry.
TRANSNOMINATIO. Sec Meconmia.
TRAPISOM, is che Term Wvhich lome gire 10
the Vanc oF a Cross. stafs, Wrtrich is made 10 side a
ehis Fincture, 25 did Fransmure an Ounce and 2 lons ripon the Cross staf, by means OF a Square
halF OF Silver inco rhac Noble MetaI: But Wwithal,
that designins astetratds ro prolecure nls surpri-
zins Experiment tuscter, he could never asain
Socket; and may be sec ro any ot the Graduations
on cheScast, in an Observarion.
TRANSOM OE a Stip, is chac main Piece oF
makie (uch an Aqua forris 25 would dra any such Fimber which lieth across her STern aE Rer BUE
Tincture From Gold. Tho Mr. Boyle seems encli-
ned ro beliere che Thinspossible, because he him-
selfmore chan once vas able ro deprive Cold ot
irs rellon Colour, andro communicare ic to a Men
struum.
tock, directly under ThCGUN-TOOM POrE; a5 irhem
2 Stip is BuilE DrOAd OF HAFTOW AE HeF FranLOm, MC
is Paid to have 2 broad or a narrow Butrock.
TRANSPARENT, or Diaphanous Bodies are
Cuch Whose Pores probably are all righe and nearty
Perpendicular ro the Plane of their Surtace, and (0
consequenely do ler che Rays oF Lighe pals freets
chro chem, withour beins retracted: Whereas che
Pores ot Opacous Bodies are in crooked oblique Po-
the Borrom resdined a Wvhire Powder which e sirion, by Which means che Beams oF LighE Can
noc pass Freely thro them, bur are variousy re-
tracted and lost.
TRANSPTRATION, a Breathing chrough, a5
OE Vapours chrough che Pores oF che Stin. Blan-
chard.
TRANSPOSITION os Equations. SeC Equa-
rion.
LLLAASVEKSALIS Colli, is a Muscle ot che
Neck, wohich ariseth Fleshy From all che Fransverle
Processes of the Verrebrae Of the Neck, excepr the
Arct and second, and is inserred atrer an oblique
ascendins Progress cotheir Superior Spines; it Be-
ins a Concimvacion et che lanie heries oF Mhusculac
Tibres
have seIS SPCCMCA Marity chan 18 and a haIE 1OL,
it cannoc be true Gold; and cheretore must cicher
es enouxh, and oustr ro be knonn.
They bruise the Cinnabar BrONY, and cher
Ee rells us ato in his Origin oF FOrms, P. 235
Thar by purtins co a lalxot Cold, 2 800d on
oF his Menstrum Peracutum, wich a lirele SpHHE OF
Salc, ic did llomss, and quiecty dissolve IE, O1L) a1
Nenstruum Noue nor touch, and irhich was ln-
dissoluble in Aqua Rexalis. This Whire Poder be-
ins wich BOraX, Or Lome such AuX Powder melred
into a Mecal, vas tound eo be wrhire likce Silver,
reildins co rhe llammer, Dissoluble in Aqua Fortis
Or Spirit oF Nicre; and vould chere leare a rruc
Silrer Calx, odiousty Biccer. This is a Prange
Experiment, wtich had Nr. Boyle made any more
Than once, 25 T cannor And chac he had; and had
he cried che Specitck Gravier oF chis axparene Sil-
ver, and Found ic co be lels chan chat oF Crold, it
hrad been no (mall Proot of the Poniblitr, et d
LTAN(UEaLION OF MCtalS.