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cipitated has acquired no addition of 

 weight, no new or renjarkable properties, 

 and is eafily reducible to the native form 

 of the body diflblved, there mud be fome 

 other caufe of precipitation, which may 

 probably be, that there is a greater affi- 

 nity betwixt the precipitating body and 

 the ibivent, than betwixt this and the bo- 

 dy diflblved ; whence^ froiii the difpoii- 

 tion of thefe bodies to unite, they {hake 

 off, or drive away from them, the parti' 

 des already joined to the folvent. 



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