Anahjfis of the Air. 
the receiver, as in the whole air of the re- 
ceiver ; this muft be owing to the SalTartar 
in the flannel lining, which muft needs have 
abforbed one third of the fuliginous vapours, 
which arofe from the burning Candle. Hence 
we may not unreafonably conclude, that the 
pernicious quality of noxious vapours in the 
air might, in many cafes, be much rebated 
and qualified by the ftrongly abforbing power 
of Salts. 
Whether Salts will have a good effefl: in 
ail, or any of thefe cafes, experience will 
beft inform us. There is certainly fufficient 
ground, from many of the foregoing Experi- 
ments, to encourage us to make the tryal, 
and they may at leaft be hints for further im- 
provements. 
We fee that Candles and burning Brim- 
fione do in a much greater degree deftroy 
the elafticity of the air, than the breath of 
Animals •> becaufe their vapours are more 
plentiful, and abound more with acid ful- 
phureous particles, and are alfo lefs diluted 
with watry vapours, than the breath of Ani- 
mals is : In which alfo there are fulphurcous 
particles, tho* in lefler degrees, for the ani- 
. mal fluids, as well as folids, are ftored with 
them : 
