Some experiments concerning mercury / by J.H. Boerhaave ; Translated from the latin, communicated by the author to the Royal Society.

  • Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738.
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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    [«] Mercury ftill retains this Property (of Fluidity). 6. Which therefore does not de¬ pend on any Feces or Dregs foreign to the Mercury, and that may be feparated from it by Fire. 7. The Matter which, after the Diftillation of the Mercury, remain’d- in the Bottom of the Retort, red, fhining, and fharp, is no more like the black Powder proceeding from the Shaking, than that Part is of the Mercury, which remained volatile. 8. Mercury is changed by Fire and Shaking; by Fire into red, by Shak¬ ing into black: Therefore Mercury changes Colour. 9. Whether Mercury fhaken in a fmaller Quantity, gives more of the black? (Powder) Experiment