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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 75

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  1. Asain, the refraction oF Camphire, Oyl. Olive, L int-
  2. lecd OyI. Spirit ot Turpentine and Amber, wrhich aee
  3. tat sulphureous unctuous Bodies, and a Diamond, Which
  4. probabls is an unetuous substance congulated, have their
  5. retractire porrers in proportion toone another as their
  6. densties without anr considerable rariation. But the
  7. retractire porer ot chese unctuous substances is tvo
  8. Or three times greater in respect ot their densities than
  9. the retractire porrers of theformer substances in respect
  10. OF theirs.
  11. Wacer has a retractire porver in a middle desree De-
  12. Ereen chose tro Torts ot lubstances, and probablr is ot
  13. a midale nature. Lor out of it gro all regetable and
  14. animal substances, erhich consist as rell ot sulphureous
  15. fat and inslamable parts, a5 oF carthy lean and alcali
  16. 2aLC OHCS.
  17. Sals and Vitriols hare refractire porvers in a middle
  18. decree betrrcen those ot curthy substances and Water,
  19. and accordinsls are composed ot thole tiro lorts of sub.
  20. Cances. For by distillation and rectification ot their
  21. Spirits a great part of them soes into Water, and a sreat
  22. Part remains behind in theform of a diy fixt carth ca
  23. Pable ot vitrification.
  24. Spirit oF Wine has a retractire porver in a midale
  25. derree betrreen thole oF Water and oyly substances, and
  26. accordinsly seems to De compoled ot both, united by
  27. Fermentation; the Water, by means of lome Caline SpI-
  28. rits rith irtich ris impregnated, dissolvins theOyt
  29. and volatizins it by the action. For Spirit OF Winc 1S
  30. inslamable by means oF its oylr parts, and beins dictil-
  31. led olten From SaltoF Partar, srons by every dictilla-
  32. tion more and more aqueous and Aesmatick. And
  33. .1
  34. Chymists

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 75. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0251?run=74