Wherefore considering also, that
very many of the effects of Lixiviate Liquors, upon the Solutions of other
Bodies, may be destroy'd by Acid _Menstruums_, as I elsewhere more
particularly declare, I concluded, that if I chose a very potently Acid
Liquor, which by its Incisive power might undo the work of the Oyl of
Tartar, and disperse again those Particles, which the other had by
Precipitation associated, into such minute Corpuscles as were before singly
Inconspicuous, they would become Inconspicuous again, and consequently
leave the Liquor as Colourless as before the Precipitation was made.
This, as I said, _Pyrophilus_, seems to be the Chymical reason of this
Experiment, that is such a reason, as, supposing the truth of those
Chymical Notions I have elsewhere I hope evinc'd, may give such an account
of the _Phaenomena_ as Chymical Notions can supply us with; but I both here
and elsewhere make use of this way of speaking, to intimate that I am
sufficiently aware of the difference betwixt a Chymical Explication of a
_Phaenomenon_, and one that is truly Philosophical or Mechanical; as in our
present case, I tell you something, when I tell you that the Yellowness of
the Mercurial Solution and the Oyl of Tartar is produc'd by the
Precipitation occasion'd by the affusion of the latter of those Liquors,
and that the destruction of the Colour proceeds from the Dissipation of
that Curdl'd matter, whose Texture is destroy'd, and which is dissolv'd
into Minute and Invisible particles by the potently Acid _Menstruum_, which
is the reason, why there remains no Sediment in the Bottom, because the
infused Oyl takes it up, and resolves it into hidden or invisible Parts, as
Water does Salt or Sugar.
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