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its coming into the water make fuch 

 a brisk noife, as might almoft pafs for 

 a kind of Explofion.] 



Thefe fhmomena feem to argue, 

 that the Difpofition that Lime has to 

 grow hot with water, depends much 

 on fome peculiar Texture* fince the 

 aqueous parts, that one would think 

 capable of quenching all or mod of 

 the Atomes of Fire that are fuppo- 

 fed to adhere to Quick-lime, did not 

 near fo much weaken the difpofition 

 of it to Incalefcence, as the acccfli- 

 on of the fpirituous Corpufcles and 

 their Contexture, with thofeof the 

 Lime, increafed that igneous Difpo- 

 fition. And that there might inter- 

 vene fuch an affociation , feems to 

 me the more probable , not onely 

 becaufe much of the diftiird Liquor 

 was as phlegmatick, as if it Had been 

 robb'd of its more a&ive parts, but 

 becaufe I have fometimes had Spirit 

 of Wine come over with Quick-lime 

 not in unobferved fleams, but white 

 fumes. To which Ifhalladde, that, 

 befides that the Ta lie, and perhaps 



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