Chemical experiments and opinions : extracted from a work published in the last century.

  • Mayow, John, 1641-1679.
Date:
1790
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Credit: Chemical experiments and opinions : extracted from a work published in the last century. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fertilize the earth — vegetables confift of a nitrous, not of an alkaline fait, but it be-, comes alkaline by burning—why vegetables, burned with a fmothered fire, afford more fixed fait than otherwife — diuretic falts fhould not be calcined in a ftrongheat—why the fumes of charcoal bring on fuffocation — why fermenting liquors become acidulous ■— why fome vegetables afford but little fixed fait—the nitre of vegetables haftens their burning — of the fermenlation by which the decay of vegetables is occafioncd—combuftion is a very deftrudtive kind of fermentation — there is a great refemblance between fire and th6 other fermentations that occafion decay — how things are deflroyed by external heat and moifture — of the nature of ferments — all heat feems to arife from the motion of nitro-aerial particles — why things acquire acidity from fermentation. Chap. VI. Of nitro-at'imfpherical fpirit in as far as it oc- cq/iofis rigidity and elajiicity — alfo of the mechanifm of elajiicity — incidentally of the burjiing of Prince Rupert's 'Drops, Nitro-atmofpherical particles fixed in bo- dies render them rigid. The fparks flruck from