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fall ways of Volatilization of bodies, 

 dr of introducing volatility into an 

 affigned portion of matter. For 

 thefe wayes feem not inconveniently 

 reducible to five, which I (hall feve- 

 rally mention, though Nature and 

 Art do ufually imploy two or more 

 of them in conjunction. For' which 

 Reafon I would not, when I fpeak of 

 one of thefe wayes., be understood as 

 if, excluding the reft, I meant that no 

 other concurred with if. 



The firft of the five ways or means 

 of Volatilizing a body is, to reduce it 

 into minute parts, and c<eterK paribus > 

 the more minute they are the bet- 

 ter. 



That the bringing a body into ve- 

 ry minute parts may much conduce 

 to the volatilizing of it, may be ga- 

 thered from the vulgar pra&ice of 

 the Chymifts, who when they would 

 fublime or diftill Antimony, Sal Ar- 

 moniac, Sea- fait, Nitre, &c. are 

 \vont to beat them to powders to fa- 

 cilitate their receiving a further com- 

 minution by the a&ion of the fire. 



And 



