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CHAP. IV. 
Of Dissolution. 
H E Diffolution of Salts or faline 
dies is effected by an Intrufion or In¬ 
terpolation of the Particles of Water* or 
fome other DifTolvent, between the Particles 
that compound fuch Bodies ; whereby their 
Combination is deftroyed, and they become 
feparated from each other. 
Sir Ifaac Newton -f* accounts for the Dido- 
lution of fuch Subfiances from the great 
Principle of Attraction* and the Manner 
thereof is explained by Dr. Friend , in his 
FrczleStiones Chemicce, p. 6i, where he gives 
a mechanical Description of the diffolving 
of common Salt in Water; the meaning' 
of which in few Words is, £S that the Cor- 
<c pufcles of Salt being extremely dm pip, 
minute, and folia for their Bulk, are con- 
§e fequently endued with a flrong attractive 
“ Power: (Attraction being, c deter isparibus, 
“ always in proportion to the Quantity of 
“ Matter:) the Particles of Water are there- 
te fore attracted more vigoroufly by the fa?* 
se line Particles than by one another: for the 
watery Particles cohering but Hightly, and 
<£ moving readily, w r hen they approach the 
Particles of Salt, rufli as it were into their 
Vick Newton's Opticks, p. 351. 
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