Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664)Boyle, Robert
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Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664)
Boyle, Robert
Color -- Early works to 1800; Colors -- Early works to 1800
By all this You may see, _Pyrophilus_, the reasonableness of what we
elsewhere had occasion to mention, when we have divers times told you, that
it is usefull to have New Experiments try'd over again, though they were,
at first, made by Knowing and Candid Men, such Reiterations of Experiments
commonly exhibiting some New Phænomena, detecting some Mistake or hinting
some Truth, in reference to them, that was not formerly taken notice of.
And some of our friends have been pleas'd to think, that we have made no
unusefull addition to this Experiment, by shewing a way, how in a moment
our Liquor may be depriv'd of its Blewness, and restor'd to it again by the
affusion of a very few drops of Liquors, which have neither of them any
Colour at all of their own. And that which deserves some particular wonder,
is, that the Cæruleous Tincture of our Wood is subject by the former
Method to be Destroy'd or Restor'd, the Yellowish or Reddish Tincture
continuing what it was. And that you may see, that Salts are of a
considerable use in the striking of Colours, let me add to the many
Experiments which may be afforded us to this purpose by the Dyers Trade,
this Observation; That as far as we have hitherto try'd, those Liquors in
general that are strong of Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the
Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood, and those Liquors indiscriminatly
that abound with Sulphureous Salts, (under which I comprehend the Urinous
and Volatile Salts of Animal Substances, and the Alcalisate or fixed Salts
that are made by Incineration) have the vertue of Restoring it.
_A Corollary of the Tenth Experiment._
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