,832' Experiments on the Fufion 



fome years, before the public, and has been republifh- 

 ed and handfomely noticed, both in France and Eng- 

 land. Still however, his refiilts have not found theii" 

 way into the Systematical books on Chemiftry, (with 

 the exception of Mr. Murrays system,^ notwithftanding 

 that fome of the European Profeffors have availed them- 

 felves of Mr. Hare's invention, fo far as to exhibit his 

 moft fplendid and ftriking experiments to their claffes. 



The writer of this article, although fully difclaiming 

 any share in Mr. Hare's invention, was early aflbciated 

 with him in his experiments ; they excited in his mind 

 a degree of intereft, which led him to hope that they 

 would be repeated and extended by others, but, as no- 

 thing of this kind has appeared in this country, perhaps 

 the following experiments may not be altogether unin- 

 terefting, especially as they were performed with an 

 apparatus, of a conftrudion fomewhat more fimple than 

 the original. 



It will be necelTary to recollect that Mr. Hare not on- 

 ly melted alumine, which Lavoifier had done before, but 

 alfo silex and barytes, and, by fubfequent experiments, 

 he added strontites, to the lift of fufible bodies : he was 

 inclined to believe that he had volatilized gold and lil- 

 ver, a conclusion which was rendered highly propable 

 by his having afterwards evidently volatilized platinum. 



The experiments of Mr. Hare, as will appear below, 

 have been repeated by the writer of this paper with fuc- 

 cefs, and many other bodies among the moft refractory 

 in nature, have been melted. For the fake of fhewing 

 how far the experiments now to be recited have affed- 

 ed our knowledge of the dominion of heat, quotations, 

 for comparifon, will occalionally be made, from one of 

 the lateft and moft refpectable chemical authorities. 



(Murray's System 2d Ed.) 



Bodies submitted to the heat of the compound Blow- 

 Pipe OF Mr. Hare. 

 Primitive Earths. 

 SiLEX — being in a fine powder, it was blown away by 

 the current of gas, but when moiftened with water. 



