Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) — John Shaqi
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
before such Affusion. And in some _Chymical_ Oyls, as particularly that of
Lemmon Pills, by barely Shaking the Glass, that holds it, into Bubbles,
that Transposition of the Parts which is consequent to the Shaking, will
shew you on the Surfaces of the Bubbles exceeding Orient and Lively
Colours, which when the Bubbles relapse into the rest of the Oyl, do
immediately Vanish.
24. I know not, _Pyrophilus_, whether I should mention as a Distinct way,
because it is of a somewhat more General Nature, that Power, whereby a
Liquor may alter the Colour of another Body, by putting the Parts of it
into Motion; For though possibly the Motion so produc'd, does, as such,
seldome suddenly change the Colour of the Body whose Parts are Agitated,
yet this seems to be one of the most General, however not Immediate causes
of the Quick change of Colours in Bodies. For the Parts being put into
Motion by the adventitious Liquor, divers of them that were before United,
may become thereby Disjoyn'd, and when that Motion ceases or decays others
of them may stick together, and that in a new Order, by which means the
Motion may sometimes produce Permanent changes of Colours, as in the
Experiment you will meet with hereafter, of presently turning a Snowy White
Body into a Yellow, by the bare Affusion of fair Water, which probably so
Dissolves the Saline Corpuscles that remain'd in the _Calx_, and sets them
at Liberty to Act upon one another, and the Metall, far more Powerfully
than the Water without the Assistance of such Saline Corpuscles could do.
And though you rubb Blew _Vitriol_, how Venereal and Unsophisticated soever
it be, upon the Whetted Blade of a Knife, it will not impart to the Iron
its Latent Colour, but if you moisten the _Vitriol_ with your Spittle, or
common Water, the Particles of the Liquor disjoyning those of the
_Vitriol_, and thereby giving them the Various Agitation requisite to Fluid
Bodies, the Metalline Corpuscles of the thus Dissolv'd _Vitriol_ will Lodge
themselves in Throngs in the Small and Congruous Pores of the Iron they are
Rubb'd on, and so give the Surface of it the Genuine Colour of the Copper.
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