A scheme for a course of chymistry / to be performed by Henry Pemberton.

  • Henry Pemberton
Date:
1731?]
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Credit: A scheme for a course of chymistry / to be performed by Henry Pemberton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    115 ] dicus. The effects of the alkaline falts oil metals; whence aqua fapphirrina, & cha- lybs line acido. ✓ r r*: ’ V' > Lecture XIX. G e n e r a l remarks on the foregoing procelTes whereby it is {hewn, that the re- pullive force feen in nature is owing to ful- phur, the attractive to the acid; and confe- quently, that the acid principle unites the parts of bodies, and preferves to each its re- fpeCtive form ■, unlefs an external acid is ap¬ plied to the body under circumflances, where¬ by the body is broken, and a new compound fucceeds. The nature of the air farther ex¬ plained: that the air caufes bodies to burn by the fame principle, as acid fpirits corrode metals, and other terreftrious bodies. The leCture concludes with fome obfer- vations on colours, with the method of tinging glafs, and dying cloth ; alfo an expla¬ nation of the nature of mineral waters.