Analyfis of the Air. 3 o 1 



an elaftick ftate; part unites with the eflen- 

 tial Salt, Water, Oil and Earth, which con- 

 ftitute the Tartar which adheres to the fides 

 of the veffel ; the remainder, which continues 

 in the fermented liquor, is there, fome of it 

 in a fix'd, and fome in an elaftick ftate, which 

 gives brisknefs to the liquor; their expanding 

 bubbles rifing of a very vifible fize, when the 

 weight of the incumbent air is taken off the 

 liquor in a- vacuum. 



And as there was found a greater quantity 

 of air in the deer's horn than in blood, we 

 may alfo obferve it to be in a much greater 

 proportion in the more folid parts of Vege- 

 tables, than in their fluid : For we find in 

 Experiment 55. $j. and 60. that near one- 

 third part of the fubftance of the Peafe, heart 

 of Oak, and Tobacco, were, by the action of 

 fire, changed from an unelaftick ftate to an 

 elaftick air : And fince a much greater pro- 

 portion of air is found in the folid than the 

 fluid parts of bodies, may we not with good 

 reafon conclude, that it is very inftrumental, 

 as a band of union in thofe bodies? " Thofe 

 " particles (as Sir Ifaac Newton oblerves) 

 <£ receding from one another with the great- 

 " eft repulfive force, and being moft dirri- 

 " cultly brought together, which upon con- 



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