(PHYSICAL ann LITERARY. ‘295 
VIL: ‘Some bodies can be diffolved in li- 
quors of very different qualities, but in differ- 
ent proportions, with different sis appear- 
ances and effects.’ 
Common  fulphur or “its flowers ‘diffolve 
in any oil, but more’ eafily, | and ‘in “greater 
“quantity, in a thick, mild, expreft-oil, than 
in a thin, hot, aromatic, diftilled oil.) When 
‘flowers of fulphur’ are digefted swith oil of 
olives, or lint-feed; it becomes: a thick bal- 
fam; three ounces of ‘oil will: diffolve one 
ounce of fulphur ; and any fmall part of ful- 
- phur which remains,:‘has the appearance‘of 
-melted fulphur.':But when the flowers: are 
digefted with ethereal oil of turpentine, fix 
- ounces of oil will fcarce. diffolve one of ful- 
_ phur, : and :what remains is not » like. the ful- 
» phur in the former cafe; for, if ‘the veffel 
is cooled gradually before the balfam is pour- 
ed off; the fulphur appears almoft like nitre 
~ when it chryftallizes, or a vegetating falt 
i ~ 
branched out into long flender ftalks. Sul- 
. phur likeways diffolves in fpirit of hartthorn, 
but ftill in lefs quantity, and with a» {maller 
_ degree of heat. And it is to be obferved, 
-that the unrectified . or oily fpirit will dif- 
- folve more fulphur) than the clear and pure 
{pirit, 
