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Title:  Evenings at home; or, the juvenile budget opened: Consisting of a variety of miscellaneous pieces, ... [pt.2]
Author: Aikin, John, 1747-1822.
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Sugar may be made in like manner to form crystals, and then it is sugar|candy.Pup.But what is a syrup?Tut.That is, when so much sugar is dissolved as sensibly to thicken the li|quor, but not to separate from it. Well—now to your question about tea. On exposing it to considerable heat, those fine particles in which its flavour con|sists, being as volatile or evaporable as the water, would fly off along with it; and when the liquor came to dryness, there would only be left those particles in which its roughness and colour con|sist. This would make what is called an extract of a plant.Pup.What becomes of the water that evaporates?Tut.It ascends into the air, and unites with it. But if in its way it be stopped by any cold body, it is condensed, that is, it returns to the state of water again. Lift up the lid of the tea-pot, and you 0