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form, alone, nor can a particle of ice, after it is melted 

 into water, be ever separated from the other particles 

 of water. But sugar is a different substance from 

 water, and may be again recovered in its distinct state, 

 hj the aid even of heat. The one is, therefore, mslt- 

 ed, and the other difsolved. 



Again, when' sugar, or other saline bodies, that 

 naturally attract moisture, are exposed to a damp 

 atmosphere, they gradually imbibe water from 

 it, and arc converted into a fluid mafs, by a pro- 

 cefs, precisely in apjjearance the same as that which 

 takes place when snow is converted into water 

 by the influence of a wann air. The snow in this 

 case melts ; and inaccurate observers have thought 

 the sugar irielts also, — it only difsolves. We cannot, 

 therefore, in this case say, melted sugar, nor difsolved 

 snow ; exact precision requires that we fljould say 

 melted snow and difsolved sugar. 



Frost, n. A general term denoting that state of 

 the atmosphere in which bodies containing water 

 are rendered stiff, in consequence of the water being 

 converted from a fluid into a solid state. 



The word Jiost never properly denotes the solid 

 particles of water itself, (unlefs under the particular 

 modification of it called boar-frost,^ for frozen wa- 

 ter is called ice. It has only reference to the effects 

 produced upon other bodies, by the congelation of 

 the watery particles with which they are necefsarily 

 or accidentally connected. 



To FREEZE V. Denotes that operation of nature 

 by vv^hich water is changed from a fluid into a so- 

 lid state } and is, precisely, when the water alone is 



