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

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  1. be a mixture ot lome lola and orher Mecals togc
  2. cher; or else some oE them under che Disguile o
  3. Cold.
  4. The Trick oF cumins Cinnabar into Silver, is pre
  5. sratisie ic in a Crucible wich grannulated Silver:
  6. The Crucible is placed in a grear Fire, and astet
  7. duc time for ies Calcination, ther cake ic OH; ane
  8. pourins che Matrer our, ther ceer che Cinnabar
  9. curn d into real Silver, tho the Silver Grains ap
  10. Pear inthe Number and Form ther ivere pur into
  11. Ehe Crucible. Buc the Mifchiet oF all is, Wrhen
  12. roû come iohandle che Grains ot Silver, vou find
  13. them nochins bur lighe friable Bladders Wwhich will
  14. crumble ro pieces berreen rour Fingers: The Sil
  15. ver is almost all oF ir sor in and incorporared wich
  16. chie Cinnabar, and the vrhole reistis no more, nO
  17. indeed (o much, a5 ic did when ic was AxA pUE in
  18. ro che Crucible.
  19. Due co sire vou somertine on che betrall ol
  20. Transmutation, MIF. Boyle EalUs oF his ovn separa.
  21. rins trom commonMercurr, near a Fourch pare ol
  22. ies weiphe in clear Liquor, Scep. Chym. Pa5. 134
  23. and rells us also, chat evo Friends of his did, by
  24. presins Mercurr in a skiltully manased Fire, turn
  25. ic almost Weiohe for Weighe inco Warer; bucches
  26. cellus nor in cirher Experiment, che Specifck Cra
  27. vits of che produced Wacer, nor ot che remainins
  28. uneransmured Ma(SOF Mercury; wrhich untelsonc
  29. kne, chere is no judgins ot che Realiey oL che
  30. Transmucation.
  31. In his Second Fssay on the succcedins Experiments
  32. he rellS uS, ThaEDF. R. a Person tar boch trom
  33. the Temprarion and Custom oF Lvins, afured
  34. him he did once lighe on a kind oF Aqua forris with
  35. Which he did dirers rimes drav a Volatile Tincture,
  36. wrhich cousd and did curn Silver into Colu; and
  37. chac out of an Ounce oF Cold he drew as much ot
  38. But Whac char noble Author relates in anorhe
  39. Place of che lame Book, abour che Pransmutarior
  40. Ot Water into Farth; I judge chemore considera
  41. ble, because he made ule of tsydiostaricks, 1O Cx.
  42. amine his Fransmured Matter, viz
  43. Thac rain Wacer beine distilled. or re distilles
  44. (by 2 Friend oE his) mans rimes over asain (near
  45. 200Tines) did alrer each Distillarion, leare ac che
  46. Borrom oE the Cla(S Body, a rhite Farth in E
  47. considerable Ouantier; and this was aHforded (Paict
  48. Mr. Boyle) more plenritully in che latrer Distillari
  49. Ons, chan in the first.
  50. This he Beleired co be a cerrain Ouanrirs oE
  51. Water, actually curned into Barth, and ic was
  52. abore tvice ashearr (Specitcally) as common WV a-
  53. ter, and vas ot (o sixt a NNacure, chac ic lay in a
  54. red hor Cruciblefor a considerable Fime, Wichour
  55. beins diministred in Weisl, or emierins any
  56. manner oF Smonk.
  57. Ile cakres norice al(o, that an Ounce of Wacer
  58. reilded six Drams of Porrder, a considerable Ouan-
  59. tier of Wacer Aill remainine behind; and chac the
  60. Clals in which ic was distilled, was noc inche least
  61. sensibly Damased chereby. Zec this great Chy-
  62. mist was noc wirtiour some Scruples abour ihe FX
  63. DETIMEHE FOT,
  64. Firstu Fe Was nor Parissiec chac che remainine
  65. Wacer, Was noc Lieticer chui belere ihe Di
  66. Ailation.
  67. Seconaly, He as nor altured chac no PartS ol
  68. che 6lalo Vestet vere Ditolred, or Incoiporated
  69. wich ic.
  70. Thiraty. Nor Whecher Warer verruly an Flomo-
  71. Geneal Body; for if it be, he chinks ic Disficule
  72. noc Impossible co conceire thAE it can BC
  73. Fransnured: For hou con (saith he) che bare Con-
  74. rencion ot ihe Pars oE a Lluid umO à COnCICte
  75. alter che Specitick Graviry.
  76. TRANSNOMINATIO. Sec Meconmia.
  77. TRAPISOM, is che Term Wvhich lome gire 10
  78. the Vanc oF a Cross. stafs, Wrtrich is made 10 side a
  79. ehis Fincture, 25 did Fransmure an Ounce and 2 lons ripon the Cross staf, by means OF a Square
  80. halF OF Silver inco rhac Noble MetaI: But Wwithal,
  81. that designins astetratds ro prolecure nls surpri-
  82. zins Experiment tuscter, he could never asain
  83. Socket; and may be sec ro any ot the Graduations
  84. on cheScast, in an Observarion.
  85. TRANSOM OE a Stip, is chac main Piece oF
  86. makie (uch an Aqua forris 25 would dra any such Fimber which lieth across her STern aE Rer BUE
  87. Tincture From Gold. Tho Mr. Boyle seems encli-
  88. ned ro beliere che Thinspossible, because he him-
  89. selfmore chan once vas able ro deprive Cold ot
  90. irs rellon Colour, andro communicare ic to a Men
  91. struum.
  92. tock, directly under ThCGUN-TOOM POrE; a5 irhem
  93. 2 Stip is BuilE DrOAd OF HAFTOW AE HeF FranLOm, MC
  94. is Paid to have 2 broad or a narrow Butrock.
  95. TRANSPARENT, or Diaphanous Bodies are
  96. Cuch Whose Pores probably are all righe and nearty
  97. Perpendicular ro the Plane of their Surtace, and (0
  98. consequenely do ler che Rays oF Lighe pals freets
  99. chro chem, withour beins retracted: Whereas che
  100. Pores ot Opacous Bodies are in crooked oblique Po-
  101. the Borrom resdined a Wvhire Powder which e sirion, by Which means che Beams oF LighE Can
  102. noc pass Freely thro them, bur are variousy re-
  103. tracted and lost.
  104. TRANSPTRATION, a Breathing chrough, a5
  105. OE Vapours chrough che Pores oF che Stin. Blan-
  106. chard.
  107. TRANSPOSITION os Equations. SeC Equa-
  108. rion.
  109. LLLAASVEKSALIS Colli, is a Muscle ot che
  110. Neck, wohich ariseth Fleshy From all che Fransverle
  111. Processes of the Verrebrae Of the Neck, excepr the
  112. Arct and second, and is inserred atrer an oblique
  113. ascendins Progress cotheir Superior Spines; it Be-
  114. ins a Concimvacion et che lanie heries oF Mhusculac
  115. Tibres
  116. have seIS SPCCMCA Marity chan 18 and a haIE 1OL,
  117. it cannoc be true Gold; and cheretore must cicher
  118. es enouxh, and oustr ro be knonn.
  119. They bruise the Cinnabar BrONY, and cher
  120. Ee rells us ato in his Origin oF FOrms, P. 235
  121. Thar by purtins co a lalxot Cold, 2 800d on
  122. oF his Menstrum Peracutum, wich a lirele SpHHE OF
  123. Salc, ic did llomss, and quiecty dissolve IE, O1L) a1
  124. Nenstruum Noue nor touch, and irhich was ln-
  125. dissoluble in Aqua Rexalis. This Whire Poder be-
  126. ins wich BOraX, Or Lome such AuX Powder melred
  127. into a Mecal, vas tound eo be wrhire likce Silver,
  128. reildins co rhe llammer, Dissoluble in Aqua Fortis
  129. Or Spirit oF Nicre; and vould chere leare a rruc
  130. Silrer Calx, odiousty Biccer. This is a Prange
  131. Experiment, wtich had Nr. Boyle made any more
  132. Than once, 25 T cannor And chac he had; and had
  133. he cried che Specitck Gravier oF chis axparene Sil-
  134. ver, and Found ic co be lels chan chat oF Crold, it
  135. hrad been no (mall Proot of the Poniblitr, et d
  136. LTAN(UEaLION OF MCtalS.

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