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Altraas the carhnk add, and in conMuence the water, of the atmofph 

 honk acidjuhfides on the earth in the air. ■ 6. United with 

 foluble in water, and ahforbed by vegetables. 7 . 

 cind lime form an hepar, and thus become foluble in 



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Car- 



earth is 



forb carbonic acid from limefl 



fluid-. 



An experiment in which carbon 

 ter. 8. Vegetable roots ab- 

 gajjeous fate. 9. Carbon 



Jugar and mucilage, which are abforbed undecompounded 



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fimpk fubfl 



Appears in rotten wood. In putrefcent fleffj. andffr. 



1. Exifls in all vegetable and animal matter, asfeen in Homberg'spyrophorus, and 

 in KunkeVs phofphorus. 3. And in all calcareous earth, as in oyfler-fljells, lime- 

 Jione, gypfum,fluw, 4. Hence the ufe of calcareous earth in agriculture. 5. Shells 

 become limeftone by attra^ing carbonic acid from the 



phojph 



Limejlone jloould be burnt in clofe veffel 



Mountains of calcareo 

 6. The hardnejs of 



VI. I. Lime with 

 Unites with carbonic 



owing to phofphork acid, and perhaps of ligneous fib 



carbon may make an hepar carbonis foluble in water. 



acid, and renders it foluble in its fluid not its gaffe ous ft ate. Water fromfpring. 



is preferable to that from rivers for flooding lands. 3. Lime unites with phof 



phorus, and renders it foluble 



Unites alfo with phofphork acid. Whence 



crab'fiflo remw their floells, andfnails repair and enlarge theirs 



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with oil and fnucilage, and may thence become 



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// decompofesfoap, and 



iftitutes a -part of animals and vegetables. 5. Lime deftroys the cohefion of dead 

 'vegetables. Of recent ones by combuft 

 earth. Makes clay lefs adhefive. 



on. Attracts moifture from t 

 Unites with acids of vitriol and of 



and 



Kills 



injects, 

 wet land. 



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le limeftone twenty miles long and ten broad. . Lime not of ufe on 

 iways on all calcareous foils. 7 . Lime both forwards the ripening 



and meliorates and increafes wheat and grajs byjupplying 

 fluor, bone afloes. Breedon lime is half tnagnefia. 



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Becomes more f olid by froft. 2. Effervefces in the 



manganefe 



Raddle ufed 



and dry clay have afmell when breathed 



mitriment. 8. Gypfum, 

 I. Clay is too adhe- 

 air. Acquires oxygen 

 3 . Granite acquires oxygen 

 Marl crumbles in the air 



Burnt clay acquires oxygen and burnt lead. 4. Burnt clay promotes the genera 



tion of nitre. 

 Ufe offea-falt 



Ufe of paring and burning. 5 . Bm-nt clay decompofes marine Jalt 

 n manure. 6. Would phofph at of lime combine with clay, or bone- 



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7 . Cohefion of clay overcome by 



By roots offtrong pi 



bonic acid from leaves in the pade. By dunghill 



By 



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lays ho 



By WQod-afhes,Joapfuds, lime, magnefia, VIII. i. S 



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