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

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  1. A5 the Difference of the Semi-arameters of the perace che dil Erom che Liquor in che Reccirer
  2. ePaim in che teac
  3. Dy a Tunnel, ox a Filere, and in a genele FTear
  4. tree che Spirir From lome ot its Phleem, (tho
  5. Ehis is nOE alvars necessarY.) Wich chis, helaith
  6. he drer Tinctures noc only trom Crude Corals.
  7. but even From the Lapis Flamatites, and Cranates.
  8. urpordered; nar also trom Diamonds and Ru-
  9. bies. Tec by no means was this (0 Corrosire 2
  10. Liquor as Aqua fortis, Or as the other Acid MLen-
  11. Fromhencetheretore we may learn to suspend
  12. Our ANenE aS tO that bold APertion oF some Phi-
  13. AH LOm hence the Word Menstruum hach sicians and Nacuralists, Thac eis impolsible any
  14. Sugar,
  15. Medicine can be Found out, thac Mall disolve
  16. the Sione in the Bladder Or Kidners: buE WhaE
  17. must also corrode and destroy the Vesselschrouetr
  18. Wohich ic passes in the Body. For there are ma-
  19. ny Menstruums effectually Corrolire, that will
  20. nOE Work ac aHL on some Bodies; which vet
  21. Otter chines, tho of no such Corrosire Nacure
  22. ro che Fongue or the Touch, vill readily dis-
  23. SOlre. Thus Ouiekslver will dissolre Gold, 1h0
  24. OF FrAOIMenES OF C0ld, (9C. Will readily desces chere be no sensible ApPCaraNCC OF any COrrO-
  25. sivenels in the NerCuEY, Cither to the FIngeF, OL
  26. erento the Fonoue; and vet neither Aqua for-
  27. tis, nor Oil oE Vicriol, nor Spiric oF Nitre, vil
  28. Corrosre Menstruums in Nature. Cold Water
  29. vill distolve the Whire oF an FgG; Wrhich the
  30. Purest Spirir OF Wine ill nor diride, buc congu
  31. lare; 25 Will also the ACid LiguOES, Spirir OE
  32. sist Or Ferard the DelCenE OF any heary Body Salr, and Oil OF Vicriol. Thus also Common
  33. chrough them: And this Rehstance is (certerrs Oil ill dissolre Brimstone, tho ic appear (0
  34. Ceneral Disolrent, Aqua fortis, ill noc touch
  35. Brimttone. Mans more Instances oF ehis Na-
  36. cure miphe be given; by wrtich ic appears, thac
  37. Menstruums do not operare by vireue ot any
  38. Fore eis plain verr small Bodies will have much manifest Oualier, suchi as Fleac, Moisture, Or
  39. eren Acidiey ic selF, buc racter by some Mecha
  40. nical and peculiar Pirness rhat there is Berween
  41. ttre Strape, Bulk, Solidier, (90. OF the CorpuL
  42. eles boch ot ic and che Body ro bc disolved.
  43. MIEASTRDOM Peracurum, is a Menstruum
  44. mencioned by MP. Boyle, and made by dramins
  45. MIENSORABIEIEY, is un Apcitude in 2
  46. MIENSORATIODI, Or Meaturins, is to find
  47. the Supersicial Area, or Solid Content, oF al
  48. Surtaces and Bodies. The Rules eo do which
  49. MEPTITTCAT. Exhalations, are poisonons
  50. ornoxious ones, illuins our of che Farch. Thele
  51. haVe FOE Che FamOUS GrOTTA de C an, ReAF PuZ
  52. zoli, abour ruo Miles trom Naples; wrtich is
  53. C0 called, because its poisonous Sceams rill KilI
  54. , land no doube anx ocher Animals) it
  55. Convexity and Concavity, ro the Semi-diameter os
  56. the Concavity; S0 is the Diameter os the Convexit)
  57. to the Focal Lenet
  58. MENOPEOTA, is a A
  59. affectine one Cngle Llacc
  60. MIENSTRDDM. The Chrmical Word FOr
  61. a Dissolvins Liguor. Ther save ic this Name,
  62. because Tome Chrmists pretend chat the Com-
  63. pleat Dissolurion of a Mixc cannor be done in Aruums.
  64. The Phitosophical Month
  65. Je(s Lime chan 40 Days; Which Period ther calI
  66. come DC ilc General lerm tor any VIol.
  67. vent; and als Liquor Winen W cacs c
  68. Tolre aI the Parrs ot any Body, is called a pro
  69. per Menstruum For thac Body: AS Aqua Recalis
  70. is for Gold; Aqua Forris, Or Spirit oF Nirre, F0r
  71. most ocher Mecals; Common Water For Sale, Or
  72. And here it may noc be amils ro sire a Solu-
  73. tion ot one Ditticuler, viz. Why srear Lumps
  74. 2o che bol et che Cilals; and ver when cher
  75. COme EB DC CUE Ox divided I reLs aLuL
  76. ricles ot AtOms, tho OF the same LDCCIHCK CF2-
  77. tvins, and bc suspended in the Menstruum.
  78. In order to the accounting for whic, Me may
  79. Frst consider, thar the Pares ot no fluid can DC
  80. (o calisr leparable, buc thac ther ill a lile re-
  81. vier wrtch those greater Lumps, vec thele Mail touch this Mecal, tho ther are lome ot the most
  82. paribus) RiII proportionable r0 the Surtace OF) Potr and (moorh upon che Pongue, and will nOL
  83. the descending Bodies. But the Surtaces ot B0- dissolre s0 muchi as an Fgg-sell; and vet thaE
  84. ales do by no means increale or decreale in the
  85. Came Proportion as their Solidiries do: For the
  86. Solidey encreales as che Cube, buc the Surtace
  87. onl) as isle Square ot che Diamerer. Where-
  88. laret surtaces, in Proporcon co cheir Solid Con
  89. tent, illau larger Bodies will; and consequenet,
  90. usen ches grow exceedins small, may easils a
  91. conceired to be buored up by the Fluid.
  92. Indeed ir doch Cometimes happen that a Nen-
  93. struum will dissolre and keep suspended in it,
  94. alel.
  95. withour letrine them emersé to the cop, theof Spirit of Nitre sereral rimes From Burcer or
  96. Parrs of a Body lighcet in specie than ic; 25 Antimony. Ie saith, thac by the FTelp oF chis
  97. thar Liquor ell minsled wich Oil oF. Vicriol; in a ter Flours, 1o elerate a 800d Ouancier ot
  98. Wch is an liffect noc acgrecable ro che LaWrs ot Crude CoId.
  99. Hydrostaricks: Bur then it may be considered,
  100. that there may be some such peculiar Pexture in Body, Whereby it may be apply d’or contormd
  101. the Pares ot the Camphire, as mas makie ehem to a cerrain Meature.
  102. P0 join or adhere ro chie Parrs of rhe Oil, 25 char
  103. tho hearier, vex chey Mall noc be impelled up
  104. +o the Surtace, at least for a Time: WVtich We
  105. ME. Boyle mentions a Menstruum Wrhich he ex-
  106. paY, even on Gla(s it selF, and do many chings
  107. rhac Aqua forris consd noc do. Ic vas thusmade:
  108. Cur Bronn FTonthold-Bread, Cither OE WVHCaE
  109. Or RYC, (tho the Rre is best) into Slices; and
  110. ClaIS RerONT, and draw OH in 2 Sand FUrnaCC (SFCAMIS.
  111. by deprees ot rire, wotar will core Vel. SC.
  112. wohen Camphire is dissolred into a Liquor, and herras abic, without a verr riolene Fire, and
  113. sec is che Cale, in some meature, of an accu- as exactly as is postible, rou will sind under che
  114. rare aud well. proporrioned Mixture ot Oil and Names ot che lereral Fisures and Solids.
  115. racted Erom Bread alone, thac vould ork on the Larins uled ro call Mephites; Wvhence comet
  116. Bodies more compact than many hard Minerals, the Tralian Mosera, which is the Perm they
  117. rhen cher are a licele dried, Fill avich chem a held lons orer ic, and wrichin che Scench oE cho

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