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crepitate like Sea Salt ^ it readily melts, when put in a 
Crucible in the Fire and when calcin’d till red-hot, 
affords a Calx equal to, if not flronger than a Lime- 
flone, and ferments violently, as well with Water as 
with 01. Vitriol. This Calx^when expos’d to a moift Air, 
will Part of it run per deliq. but not fo foon as before 
Calcination. All thefe Properties differ in every Re- 
fped from the common Salt, and leave me flill in doubt 
what to call it, as alfo how far Experiments of this 
Kind may be deem’d conclulive. 
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III* A. 
