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prepared and brought with its Saline 

 Additament into a new Texture 

 will eafily enough diflblve, not one* 

 ly in water, but, as I have tried, in 

 well re&tfied Spirit of Wine. And 

 the like Solubility I have found in 

 the Cryftals of Lead made with 

 Spirit of Verdigreafe 5 or good di- 

 ftilPd Vinegar, and in thofe of Cop- 

 per made with Aqua Fortfr. 



The laji Difpofition to Corrofibi- 

 lity confifts in fuch a cohefion of the 

 parts 5 whereof a Body is made up, 

 as is not too ftridt to be fuperable 

 by the a&ion of the Jldenjirnum. 

 This Condition 5 though of kin to 

 the former 5 is yet fomewhat differ- 

 ing from it, fince a body may con- 

 fill: of parts either bulky or folid, 

 which yet may touch one another 

 in fuch 'final! portions of their Sur- 

 faces, as to be much more eafily dip* 

 fociable than the minute or lefs folid 

 parts of anbther Body , whofe con- 

 ta# is more full and clofe, and fo 

 their Cohefioo more ftrift* 



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