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ing out from each other, where at Liberty, it follows 
that ail the Threads of a Table-cloth, or other large 
Piece of Linen, when made Eledtrical, (as has been 
often done all over) have a Defire to fly from each 
other} and confequently, was the repuifive Force 
flrong enough, the Whole would be diflblved, or torn 
in Pieces. A fhort Thread of black Silk, by repeated 
Applications of the Tube, I have feparated into its 
fmallefl: Fibres : Whence is fuggefted more plainly, 
than from any other known Experiment, a Reafon 
for the DiiTolution of Bodies in their refpedlive Men- 
ftruums, That the Particles of the Sol vend having 
imbibed the Particles of the Menftruum, fo as to be 
faturated with them, the faturated Particles become 
repuifive of each other, feparate, and fly to Pieces. 
And hence, perhaps, arifes a Reafon, why Particles 
of Bodies fpecifically heavier than the Menftruums in 
which they are diflblved, are, after the Diflblution 
and Difperfion, fufpended all over the Menftruum, 
viz. That they repel each other. Attradion is infuf- 
flcient} for Parts attradfed equally in all Diredtions, 
are, in Effedf, not attradfed at all, and the Imper- 
fedtion of the Fluid will not do j for if this occafioned 
the Sufpenfion, ftrikihg or jogling the Veflel would 
make them fubfide. 
Corollary II. 
Hence we plainly Jee how Heat may divide the 
Particles of Water with greater or lefs Force, in Pro- 
portion to the Degree of Saturation, and throw them 
into the Air } where they may continue to afcend, if 
at the fame time they are divided, they are expanded 
into little Shells or Bubbles, of a Diameter large 
enough 
