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EXPER. XVIIL 



BEfides the Argument adhomimm % 

 newly drawn from AquaRegia^ 

 it may be proper enough to urge an^ 

 cither of the fame kind upon the ge- 

 nerality of the Helmontians and Pa* 

 raceljians, who admit what the Heads 

 of their Se&s deliver concerning the 

 Operations of the Alk&heft. For 

 whereas 'tis affirmed , that this irre- 

 fiftible Mtvftruum will diffolve all 

 tangible bodies here below* To as 

 they may be reduced into infipid wa- 

 ter 5 as on the one fide twill be very 

 hard to conceive how a fpecificated 

 Menftruum that is determined to be 

 either Acid 5 or Lixiviate, or Uri- 

 nous, &c. ftiould be able to diflblve 

 Fo great a variety of Bodies of dif- 

 fering and perhaps contrary nature^ 

 in fome whereof Acids 5 in other 

 Lixiviate Salts £ and in others Uri- 

 nous are predominant i foon the o^ 

 rhcr fide ^ if the Alfyheft be not a 



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