Remarks on Mr. Robert Dossie's Institutes of experimental chemistry.

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1760
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Credit: Remarks on Mr. Robert Dossie's Institutes of experimental chemistry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    m which is the eflential charadter of fpirits: * That volatile alkaline falts arife from acrid plants, with the heat of boiling water y whereas riothing is found to arife with this heat but the water and eflential oil of the plant : That the cauftic acrimony of eflential oils is univerfally in proportion to the ftrength of their fmellb; whereas the firongefl fmelling oil I know of (that of anifeeds) has the leaft acrimony : That fpirit of wine diflblve9 myrrhc,and does not diflolve amberd; whereas it really diffolves one as much as the other, extradting only a part from both : That this fpirit diffolves no falts except thefal diureticus*y whereas it is well known to diflolve many others, as the ammoniacal nitre, and mod of the metallic falls made with the marine acid: That gold is made pale by fulion with nitre y the very fubftance principally made ufe of for heightening its colour : That calx of bifmuth is not vitrefcible^ whereas there is no calx, except, perhaps, that of lead, which vitrefies fo eafily: That the converfion of iron into fled depends h on the expulfion of aVol. ii.Page 12, 84. bi28. ci64. di6i. e36. *248. *1.232. hii. 377. mineral
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