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* guedine fixorum falium fblubilem, folo quandoque 
“ igne carptim delebilem, ficque dividi compofiti 
“ partes, crudumque Argentum vivum currere per- 
“ mitti. ” Filius ejus Francifcus Mercurius van HeU 
mont dicit, “ Quando plumbum folvitur ab Alcalibus 
“ & Salibus, vel Oleis, quae Sulphur ad fe trahunt, 
“ & id a corpore feparant, plumbum hifce modis 
“ mutatur in Mercurium volatilem* fluidum, qui 
“ ignem haud amplius pati poteft uti antea, fed fri- 
iC gidus eft Scfluidus inftar aquae, exuta forma metallica.. 
cc [Vide:, The Paradoxical Difcourfes of F. M. vanHeh 
€e mont, London, in8 V0 * PartIL §,22. p. iii/'*) 
Joachimus Becherus idem affirmat, fpondetque fuc- 
ceflum plurimis, quae ad hanc rem defcribit, experi- 
ments (vide Collett anea Quingentorum Experimen- 
torum, a p. 310. ad 333). Ecce clare & breviter quae 
de hac re, adhibito taediofo maxime & diuturniflimo Lar 
lore, didici. 
Operatic* 
Solvebam tantum Ceruflae purae, quantum diflolvi 
potuit, in fpiritu nitri ab aqua fextupli ponderis di- 
lute , filtrabam hanc folutionem, quae clara admodum 
inventa eft. Ex hoc liquore vafi mundo vitreo in- 
dito, ad calorem lenem infpiffato y deinde in loco 
frigido ad quietem repofito, formatae funt Cryftalli, 
quarum fumebam uncias quatuordecim, quas inmor- 
* When Lead is diflolved by Alkalies, and Salts or Oil, which take 
in the Sulphur, and feparate it from the Body, the Lead by this Means 
becomes changed into a volatile running Mercury, which can no more 
endure the Fire, as before, but is cold and running like Water, and 
without a metalline Form, 
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