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tant^by the coalition of the metalline 

 particles 5 to which a trad of time gave 

 opportunity to meet and adhere in a 

 convenient manner. 



If in what the Chymifts callP/^- 

 eipiuteperfe^ the Mercury be indeed 

 brought to lofe its fluidity 3 and be- 

 come a powder without being com- 

 pounded with any additional body 3 

 (which doubt I elfewhere ftate and 

 difcourfe of) it will afford us a no- 

 table inftance to prove, that the co- 

 alitions of particles into clufters of 

 the felf fame matter will render 

 them unfit for the motion requifite 

 to fluidity. For in this odd precipi- 

 tation by fire 5 wherein the fame 

 Menftruum is both the Liquor and 

 the Precipitate, being not all made at 

 once, the Corpufcles that firft drf- 

 clofe themfelves by their rednefs , 

 are reje&ed by thofe of the Mercury 

 that yet rernaiqs fluids as unable to 

 accompany them in the motionsthat 

 belong to Mercury as fuch. 



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