The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.
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The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.
Author
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
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London :: Printed for J. Phillips ... and J. Taylor ...,
1699-1700.
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Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Chemistry -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
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TITLE XXII. Of the Operation of the Air on the Consistency of vegetable Substances.
* 1.1A Piece of Limon having been kept a Year and some Months in a Receiver, with a mercurial Gage; it kept it's Colour pretty well, as well as it's shapes, except, that, the upper side was a little depress'd, the Liquor which fill'd it up before stagnating upon a Glass Plate, which was adapted to the Receiver. When the Receiver was open'd, the external Air rush'd in with a considerable Noise; whence it was evi∣dent,
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that all the Air the Limon had yielded in that time, was not sufficient to fill the Cavity of the Receiver. Neither the Limon nor the Juice were mouldy or ill tasted; so that it made me think, that Mouldiness cannot be well produc'd without a Concurrence of the Air. The Liquor was acid, but clear and without Faeces, being of a Colour betwixt brown and red: It turned Syrup of Violets into a Purple Colour, and cor∣roded Fragments of red Coral in the Cold.
It hath been observ'd, that Lozenges, which a Scholar frequently carry'd in his Pockets, were dissolv'd when he came near the Line; but recover'd their old Consistence, when much past it.