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CHAP. VII. 



BU T, to profecute our former 

 difcourfe, which we broke off 

 after the mention of ' Mercurius fitc^ 

 'twill now befeafonable to add, that 

 We have made divers other Precipi- 

 tations, by the bare affufion of wa- 

 ter, out offolutions, andfometimes 

 out of diftilled liquors j which, for 

 brevity fake, I here omit, that I may 

 haften to the laft way I (hall now 

 ftay to mention. 



Another way then, whereby Preci- 

 pitations of bodies may be produced 

 by debilitating the Menftruum they 

 (wim in, is by lefTening the propor- 

 tion of the Solvent to the Solntum^ 

 without any evaporation of the li- 

 quor. Thefe laft words I add, be- 

 caufe that, when there is an 

 obftru&ion or any other expulfi- 

 on of the Menftruum by heat, if 



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