Experimental notes of the mechanical origine or production of fixtness.

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Title: Experimental notes of the mechanical origine or production of fixtness.
Author: Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Publication: London :: Printed by E. Flesher, for R. Davis Bookseller in Oxford.,; 1675.
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Subject terms: Solids -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "Experimental notes of the mechanical origine or production of fixtness." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69611.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.

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EXPER. I.

To divide a Body, almost insipid, into two Bodies of very strong and very differing Tasts.

'TIS observed, that Salt-peter refined, and by that purifica∣tion freed from the Sea-salt that is wont to be mingled with it, does rather cool the tongue, than make any great saporifick impressions on it. And though I will not say, that it is, as some have thought, an insipid bo∣dy; yet the bitterishness, which seems to be its proper tast, is but very faint and languid. And yet this almost insipid body, being distilled by the way of Inflammation, (which I else∣where teach,) or even by the help of an additament of such clay as is it self a tastless body, will afford a Ni∣trous spirit, that is extreamly sharp or corrosive upon the tongue, and will dissolve several Metals them∣selves, and a fixt salt, that is like∣wise

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very strongly tasted, but of a tast altogether different from that of the Spirit, that is extreamly sharp or corrosive upon the tongue; and ac∣cordingly, this salt will dissolve di∣vers compact bodies that the other will not work on, and will precipi∣tate divers metals and other con∣cretes out of those solutions, that have been made of them by the Spi∣rit.