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the quantity of water povired on the 

 quick-lime. 



It may be worth while to obferve, 

 that the fpecific gravities of the lime-wa- 

 ter?, (/>) (c) and (d) did not differ more 

 than their taftes. The firft was weakeft 

 and leaft difagreeable; the fecond was 

 flronger ; and the third flill ftronger and 

 fomewhat pungent. Further, while ths 

 double lime-v/ater (d) gave, in a few mi- 

 nutes, a copper-colour to lilver, the weak 

 lime-water (i^) produced no fenfible 

 change upon it. 



JI. Having formerly found that lime* 

 water and claret wine, mixed together ia 

 a certain proportion, acquired a colour 

 like that of gun-powder • : I thought, 

 that, by mixing claiet with different lime" 

 water, one might judge whether they were 

 all equally Itrong of the lime or not. 

 The refult of the experiments was, that 

 one tea-fpoonful of claret required four 

 tea-fpoonfuls of the lime-water (^) j two 

 and about one third of (j:) ; and one and 



* EiTiy oa the virtues of lime water, p. 47. 



