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2 88 Analyfis of the Air. 
folliciting them to a&ion * But when the 
folid fubftance of the Lime is diffolved, by 
the affufton of fome liquid, being thereby 
emancipated, they are again at liberty to be 
influenced and agitated by each other's at- 
traction and repuifion, upon which a vio- 
lent ebullition enfues, from the aCtion and 
re-aCtion of thefe particles, which ebullition 
ceafes not, till one part of the elafticic par- 
ticles are fubdued and fixed by the ftrong 
attraction of the fulphur, and the other part 
is goc beyond the fphere of its attraction, 
and thereby thrown off into true permanent 
air: And that this is a probable folution 
of the matter, there is good reafon to con- 
clude, from the frequent inftances we have 
in many of the foregoing Experiments, that 
plenty of elaftick air is at the fame time 
both generated and abforbed by the fame 
fermenting mixture;* fome of which were 
obferved to generate more air than they ab- 
forbed, and others e contra abforbed more 
than they generated, which was the cafe of 
Lime. 
Experiment CXIX. 
And that the fulphureous and aereal par- 
ticles of the fire are lodged in many of thofe 
bodies 
