The
other _Phaenomena_ of this Experiment belong not to this place, where it may
suffice to take notice of the Production of a Green, and that the
Experiment was more than once repeated with Success.
9. And lastly, to try whether this way of compounding Colours would hold
ev'n in Ingredients actually melted by the Violence of the Fire, provided
their Texture were capable of safely induring Fusion, we caus'd some Blew
and Yellow Ammel to be long and well wrought together in the Flame of a
Lamp, which being Strongly and Incessantly blown on them kept them in some
degree of Fusion, and at length (for the Experiment requires some Patience
as well as Skil) we obtain'd the expected Ammel of a Green Colour.
I know not, _Pyrophilus_, whether it be worth while to acquaint you with
the ways that came into my Thoughts, whereby in some measure to explicate
the first of the mention'd ways of making a Green; for I have sometimes
Conjectur'd, that the mixture of the Bise and the Orpiment produc'd a Green
by so altering the Superficial Asperity, which each of those Ingredients
had apart, that the Light Incident on the mixture was Reflected with
differing Shades, as to Quantity, or Order, or both, from those of either
of the Ingredients, and such as the Light is wont to be Modify'd with, when
it Reflects from Grass, or Leaves, or some of those other Bodies that we
are wont to call Green.
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