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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    [ +1 ] 8. Twenty-two Grains were loft. Were they difpers’d ? or was this Quantity of Weight fir ft accreted to the Mercury by Fire, thence a- gain feparated by a ftronger Fire ? 9. The Nature of Mercury is con¬ fiant, fimple, and cannot be fepara¬ ted into diffimilar Parts by Diftiila- tion ; not into fix’d and volatile ; not into pure and impure; not into feces and defecated; not into diffe¬ rent Elements. Experiment IX. I put thirteen Grains of this loft fix'd Powder (viit.) into a Crucible, and jet it over an open fire before the Bellows: 1 increas'd the Heat of the Fire, by blowing till the whole Crucible- was red hot: I kept it Jo for a Quarter of &n Hour. 7he Powder remain d fix'd in the Bot- v , toniy but fwelld up like a Spunge, F a?id