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how this Agent effe&sit 5 for. Cop- 

 per being a very hard metal > and 

 Gold generally efteemed -by Chy- 

 mifts the clofeft and compafteft Bo- 

 dy in nature, I would gladly know* 

 by what power and way fuch weak 

 and probably either brittle or flex- 

 ible bodys as acid Salts, are enabled 

 with that force to disjoin fuch fo- 

 lid and clofely coherent Corpufcles 

 as make up the vifible mattes of 

 Copper and Gold D nay, and fcat- 

 ter them with that violence as per- 

 haps to tofs up multitudes of them 

 into the air. And fince in the diflb- 

 lution of thefe Metals there is ano- 

 ther Phenomenon to be accounted 

 for, as well as the forcing of the 

 parts afutjder., namely the fuftenta- 

 tion of the Metal in the Menftruum, 

 the Chymifts would have much in- 

 formed me, if they had well ex- 

 plained* how their Acidum and Al- 

 cali is able to fuftain and give flui- 

 dity to the Corpufcles of the diflblv- 

 ed Metal , which though it be but 



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