Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 54
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- not perfectir incorporate. And to the increase ot the.
- opacier oE thele Bodies it conduces Lomethins, that by
- the 23ch Obserration the resexions ot very thin trant-
- Parent substances are considerably sronger than thole
- made by the lame substances ot a greater thickness.
- P R O P. IV.
- Phe parts of Bodies and their Interstices must not be
- less than of some definite bioness, to render them opatee and
- coloured.
- For the opakest Bodies, it their parts be subtily
- divided, (a5 Metals by beins dissolred in acid men-
- Cruums, 1c.) become pertectly transparent. And vou
- may illo remember, thac in the cishth Obserration
- there iras no sensible reflexion at the superticies ot
- the Object- Cilasses ertere ther vere very near one
- anocher, though ther did not absolutelr touch. And
- inthe 17th Obterration thereflexion oFtheWater-bubble
- irhere it became thinnest as almost insensible, (0 25
- eo cause verr blacke Spots to appear on the top ot the
- Bubble by the rant ot refected Liglt.
- On these gronnds I perceire it is that Water, Saltu
- Cla(S, Stones, and such like substances, are transparent.
- tor, uxon dirers considerations, ther leem eo be a5 FuII
- ot pores or interstices becureen cheir pares as other BO.
- dies rre, but yet their parts and interltices to Dc t00
- 5
- 1
- ndl L Cause reflexions in their common Curtaces.
- DROF.
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