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that there may be a Ferment between this 
Acid, and the then too alkaline Air, which 
may thereby be reduced in fome Degree 
from its alkaline, to a neutral, more whoh 
fome State, for many acid and alkaline Mix-? 
tures produce neutral Liquors. 
5 . Now I found in the following manner, 
the Quantity of Moifture with which thefe 
five hundred and twenty two cubic Inches of 
Air were impregnated, by being breathed to 
and fro, viz. I broke off the Neck of a Flo- 
rence Flask, fo low, that the Diameter of its 
Orifice was three Quarters of an Inch, and 
then filled it within an Inch of the Top^ 
with Wood Aflies well burnt : Then I run 
a Glafs Tube down to the Bottom of the 
Afhes, and covered the Mouth of the Flask 
with a fine Rag, to prevent the Alhes being 
blown our, when I breathed through them. 
Then pinching my Noftrils clofe, 1 breathed 
through the Glafs Tube, which conveyed 
my Breath to the Bottom of the Afhes •, they 
being very dry and fcarce cold, imbibed by 
their lixivial Salt, the Moifture of my Breath 
as it paffed through them ; and having exr 
aftly poifed the Flask and Aflies in a Scale^ 
before I began to breathe through them, I 
3 found 
