Some experiments concerning mercury / by J.H. Boerhaave ; Translated from the latin, communicated by the author to the Royal Society.

  • Herman Boerhaave
Date:
1734
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Credit: Some experiments concerning mercury / by J.H. Boerhaave ; Translated from the latin, communicated by the author to the Royal Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [.S] ling-Mill, which always moves Night and Day when there is any Wind. Being thus fixed, it was rais’d up and let down by a perpendicular Moti¬ on, from the ift of March, 1732. IV. S. to the 13 th of November of the fame Year. :the EffeB. The Bottle being opened, there was the fame Weight of Mercury, which was covered on all Sides with a very foft, black, copious and fine Powder. I fqueez’d it thro’ a clean Leather Bag ; the liquid and pure Mercury pafs’d thro’. The Powder remained in the Bag of a fharp me¬ tallic Tafte, fomewhat refembling the Tafte of Copper or Brafs. » 1 Corollaries. I. Quickfilver, in itfelf very infi- pid, by meer fliaking, acquires a metallic Tafte of Copper. 1 2. From