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Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. -

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  1. excellent Obserrarions and curious Experimenes (pear of a differene Colour from rheir Rixe and
  2. relarine co rhis most copious Subject.
  3. Promiscuous Observations and F. xperiments abous
  4. Colours.
  5. Jes obserrable, thac most transparent Bodies
  6. Nacural ones, and several Bodies are ot a differeur
  7. Colour nnen dissolred in a Menstruum from ivtac
  8. ther had betore.
  9. 6. The chiesest and Moc impOrTanE Way oF aII
  10. as being chac which doch concain many ochere
  11. wichin ic, is by arociarins. ehe Saline Corpuscles
  12. when cher are cither splir, dirided, or extended or any other sorr ot che niore rigid ones or chie
  13. Po char cher have no sensible chicknels upon cheir Liquor wich the Parricles oF che Dody chac ic is
  14. Surtaces, exhibie rarious Colours likre chole oF the
  15. imployed ro work uxon, and by thac means must
  16. Rainbo. Thus is ic wich Muscorr Crlals when needs alter che Fisure, Posirion, Bignels, and De
  17. splie inro exceedins chin pieces, and sine Clals eree oF Morion oE the Componene P’arricles ot
  18. Wvhen blonn ac che Flame oF a Lamp ineo Bubbles
  19. as thin or chinner than ehe finest Paper; and (0
  20. Thac Body
  21. The Learned DC. Crem chus sumtris ux elie Re
  22. ve see u is in chose Bubbles Which Children make Cule ot abundance ot curious Experimenes abour
  23. out oF a mixture ot Soap and Wacer, and chole
  24. Wxhich arise from the Makins ot almost any Chy-
  25. che Caules OF Vecetable Colours.
  26. 2. While che Sulphur and Saline Principles ob
  27. mical Oyl, Ox Spirit oF Wine into very sine Planes do onty swim tosether and are nor ver un:
  28. Froch.
  29. ced into ore Precipirare, no Colur relulis From
  30. NP. Bople Found, chac one Grain oF Cochineal them, buc che Concenes are racher Limpid; as
  31. dissolved hrst in a pretey quantier ot Spirir oFV).
  32. rine, and then ehar Dissolurion dilured Wwith Wa-
  33. cer, vould impare a sensible, chovsh bue a faint
  34. Colour, r0 six Clases oF Warer, cach ot whichr
  35. contained 43 Ounces and Z, which aIOUBES 10 a
  36. bore r25000 rimes its omnveiehe: And this Mew.
  37. che verr grear Divisibilier ot che Parrs oF Matrer
  38. ulvalls in che Roocs and many octier parenchymoris
  39. Parts.
  40. 2. Bur volien chey are unired, and che AIKalines
  41. are predominane, chey produce a Creen Colour.
  42. 3. When che Sulptur and Altaline are more
  43. equalchey mate a Fanny
  44. 4. Wtien che Sulphur, Acid, and Alkaline are
  45. 25 ell. as che Incectine Morion oF tho Parrs ot nearly equal, they produce a Tellon.
  46. Fluid Bodies.
  47. Dr. Hook in his Microgr. Peens to think rheri
  48. are bur ivo Crixinal Colours, viz. Red and Blue
  49. Which, p. 64. he defines Thus:
  50. Red is an impression on the Retina made by an
  51. oblique and confused Pulse of Zieht, whose strone est
  52. Pari precedes, and its meakest follons. Bluc, an
  53. impression made by an oblique and consused Pulse o
  54. Lixhe, whose meakest part precedes, and its strongest
  55. folloms. Out ot chele rivo he suppoles all orher
  56. Colours may by mixture, (00. arile.
  57. The mays by which à Liquor may suddent
  58. chanec che Colour ot another LiguOr, Or oF ano
  59. cher Body Mr. Boyle chints reducible r0 (geh 25
  60. chele.
  61. 5. Wtien che Sulphur is predominant and che
  62. Acid and Alkaline equal, ic makes a BIue. BUE.
  63. 6. rhen ehie Sulphur and Acid are prodoimi
  64. nanc to che AlKaline, it produces a Purple.
  65. 7. When che Sulphur is predominane to thc AI
  66. kaline Principte, and ihe Aeid ro them boch, it
  67. produces a Scarlet: BuE,
  68. 8. Wten che Acid is predominane eo ihe AIIa-
  69. line, and che Sulphur co them boch, a Blood. Red.
  70. wohich is che hixhest and most Salphureous Colour
  71. in NacurC. Anacom: os Plants, P, 276, 277.
  72. Fxperiments os ehe sudien chanse os Colours.
  73. i. Ineo a Arons Solurion oE Sublimare in com
  74. P. By che Minure Parricles oF the Adrencirions mon Water (che Ouantiry a Spoontul or ruo
  75. Liquors inlinvarins chemselres inco the Pores oF
  76. drop 5 or 6 Drops ot 800d Spirir ot Vrine (Or a1.
  77. choorher, and slling them ux either pertectiy or in moit any volatile Spirir) and che Mixrure vilt
  78. ParE; by which means the Liphe paltins chroush prelenily appear Whire; wtich Whiceness max
  79. ihe Liquor will be dittereney retracted trom
  80. vohat it Was Betore, When thie POreS OF it vere
  81. optys slled wich Rir, or pertiaps lome more sub.
  82. tile CIuIa.
  83. by frecins IL HOI CBIC CIS Wess Mndred ic
  84. betore trom appearine in ies genuine and prover
  85. Colour, as when Wacer Wastes oH che Filch oF or-
  86. dinary Bodies, and orher Lixiriums or MenAru
  87. immediarely be destroyed by pourins in a lierle
  88. Bood Aqua Forris. The Tribe ot Vrinous Salis
  89. are distinsuisted by producins chis whire Colour.
  90. 2. Drox a larse Drop ot Syrip ot Violers ori
  91. Whire Paper, it will spread and exhibir a tolera-
  92. ble Biue Colour; then il vou drop uxon il any
  93. Acid Spirit or Scyeian Liquor, as luppole a drov
  94. OF Spirit OF Vicriol, Till’immediarely curn into
  95. a Anc Red; Whereas a drop of Spirir ot Vrine
  96. ums cleat away, or scour oft he discoloured Rust or ary Volarile Spirir vould have curred inco 2
  97. OF MCcaIS,
  98. lovely Creen; a5 al(o will a drop of ehe Solurior
  99. S. By makins 2 comminurion OF ehe PAHS oL OE Copper in Spirit oF Vrine, thouph it BC oE
  100. any Body, and thac cicher by really luba deep Blue ir selt. Noce, Fo make the Fxperimenr
  101. Parricles which clune rogechier betore.
  102. Contrary eo the last Way, che Colour ot
  103. Bodu may be chanzed by means ot a L iguor S MZ
  104. kins Coalicions or Apgrepares ot several Parricles
  105. appear ehe berrer, ris best 10 Air abouc or minolé
  106. the Liquors Wvieh che Tip of your Finger
  107. 3. Lhe FSential Oyl oF Anniseeds in cold W ea
  108. ther coapulares and turns Whirist ver it on chis
  109. Wrhirim Oynement. Spread on Whice Paper, you
  110. let Fall bur a drop or cwo oF 800d Oyl oF Virriol
  111. Which betore lay r00 scatrered and disper led 10) a Flear and Smoat will arile, and à Blood red
  112. exhibir any Colour; and this Way ihe new Co.
  113. axile.
  114. Colour will be produced.
  115. 4. The Adiaphorous Spirie ot Box mineled wirt
  116. Solurion oF Mercury in Aqua Forcis, Made Arst
  117. 2 deep Zellow, and etien in à Minure OP rO
  118. Body by dillocaring and chansins che Sire ald Po- curried as deeply Red; and beins disested a Day
  119. sicion ot che Pacs ot ic. Thus bruiced Fruits ap. (oc ro; let fall à notire Precipitate. MC. B0yle.
  120. 3. A
  121. 2. A Liquor may alter che Colour oF 2 Bod3
  122. ehem, and niaking chem lels, or else by dil-join-
  123. ins and separatins such ABprepares or Olusters oi
  124. lours ot Precipitares may be lupposed in Pari
  125. 5. ALiquor may also chanse the Colour oF 2

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Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. - . Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0199?run=74