A treatise on the Bath waters: wherein are discover'd the several principles of which they are compos'd; the cause of their heat; and the manner of their production / [Rice Charleton].

  • Rice Charleton
Date:
1754
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the Bath waters: wherein are discover'd the several principles of which they are compos'd; the cause of their heat; and the manner of their production / [Rice Charleton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 44- ] Metals; and their {hiking a red colour with the Juices of the Sun-Flower, Rofes, and Violets. \ Alcalies are characterized by their maukilh urinous Tafte; by their effer- vefcing with Acids; by their precipi¬ tating Metals and other Subftances dif- folv d in them; by their readily uniting with Oils and Sulphureous Bodies; by their changing the Juices of the Sun-Flower, Roles, and Violets green; and laftly by their difiolving and running into a fluid ftate when ex- pofed to the Air. The third Clafs of Salts which are term’d Neutral, are conftituted by the union of the preceding ones, and when perfed, neither ferment writh Acids nor Alcalies, or indeed poflefs any of their properties. They are alfo fufliciently diftinguifhed by their power of cryfta- lizing, or fhooting into regular diftinCt forms, ' /
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