A philosophical inquiry into the nature and properties of water / [John Rotheram].

  • John Rotheram
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[1770]
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Credit: A philosophical inquiry into the nature and properties of water / [John Rotheram]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    few improvements which will not be difagreo able to him. My experiments are chiefly confined to the Waters in this neighbourhood, of which we have a great variety; and as feveral of them are fimilar to thofe in other places, thefe experiments may be of more than local utility; and therefore I fhall relate fome of them very fully, with the particular circumfiances attending them. i Of Water in general. r HAT Water is the fitted:for general ufe, X which is the purefl, and raoft free from all heterogeneous particles, or unmixed with any foreign fubftance, whether of the animal, ve¬ getable, or mineral kind. An abfolutely pure and unmixed elementary Water we can indeed fcarcely procure; for whatever bodies it meets with,it will generally carry fome particles of them along with it; and more efpecially if it come into contact with any of thofe falts, which are plentifully difperfed through the animal, ve¬ getable, and mineral kingdoms; even in paf- fing