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Experiment IV. 
Some water, which had abforbed a good deal of 
fixed air, and which made a confiderable precipitate 
with lime water, was put into a phial, and kept about 
_■ of an hour in boiling water. It was found when 
cold not to make any precipitate, or to become in the 
lead; cloudy on mixing it with lime water. 
Experiment V. 
Water alfo parts with the fixed air, which it has 
abforbed by being expofed to the open air. Some of 
the fame parcel of water, that was ufed for the laft 
experiment, being expofed to the air in a faucer for 
a few days, was found at the end of that time to make 
no clouds w 7 ith lime water. 
Experiment VI. 
In like manner it was tried how much of the fame 
fort of fixed air was abforbed by fpirits of wine. The 
refu It is as follows. 
Bulk of air introduced ~ i. 
Spirit let up 
Air 
Whole 
Whole 
Bulk of air 
each time. 
abforbed 
each time. 
bulk of fpirit 
let up. 
bulk of air 
abforbed. 
remaining. 
.207 
•453 
.207 
•453 
•547 
.146 
.274 
•353 
.727 
• 2 73 
.074 
.!°3 
.427 
•83° 
.170 
.046 
b 
O 
•473 
.860 
.140 
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