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
Take then what Quantity you please of Fair Water, and having Heated it, put
into it as much good Common Sublimate, as it is able to Dissolve, and (to
be sure of having it well glutted:) continue putting in the Sublimate, till
some of it lye Untouch'd in the bottom of the Liquor, Filter this Solution
through Cap-paper, to have it cleer and limpid, and into a spoonfull or two
thereof, (put into a clean glass vessel,) shake about four or five drops
(according as you took more or less of this Solution) of good limpid
Spirits of Urine, and immediately the whole mixture will appear White like
Milk, to which mixture if you presently add a convenient proportion of
Rectifi'd _Aqua Fortis_ (for the number of drops is hard to determine,
because of the Differing Strength of the liquor, but easily found by tryal)
the Whiteness will presently disappear, and the whole mixture become
Transparent, which you may, if you please, again reduce to a good degree of
Whiteness (though inferiour to the first) onely by a more copious affusion
of fresh Spirit of Urine. _N_. First, That it is not so necessary to employ
either _Aqua Fortis_ or Spirit of Urine about this Experiment, but that we
have made it with other liquors instead of these, of which perhaps more
elsewhere. Secondly, That this Experiment, though not made with the same
_Menstruums_, nor producing the same Colour is yet much of Kin to that
other to be mentioned in this Tract among our other Experiments of Colours,
about turning a Solution of Præcipitate into an Orange-colour, and the
Chymical Reason being much alike in both, the annexing it to one of them
may suffice FOR both.
_EXPERIMENT II._
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