Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part I. For the year 1757.: Giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours, of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.Various
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Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part I. For the year 1757.: Giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours, of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.
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It appears from the 11th experiment, that an addition of common
water causes the mineral water to precipitate its ochre; and the
reason of this is obvious: for if these ochrous parts be altogether
terrene, as they appear to be, and exist in the water unconnected with
any other principle, then it must happen, that as these parts are
uniformly diffused thro’ the water, in which they are suspended as in
a menstruum; by the addition of common water, this menstruum being
diluted, the cohesion of these terrene parts must be thereby weakened,
and their contact destroyed; so that their menstrual equilibrium being
thus taken off, they can be no longer supported in the fluid, but must
be precipitated by the force of their own gravity.
_Exp._ 12. When the water was exposed for some days to the air, there
was a cremor separated from it of a shining chalybeat colour. This,
like other kinds of cremor, takes a considerable time to compleat its
intire separation from the fluid, out of which it is expelled: for when
it was despumated, a new cremor always succeeded, until the whole
quantity, which the water contained, was exhausted.
13. When this cremor first appeared on the water, it was of a faint
blueish colour; but as it increased, it changed into a deeper and more
bright shining blue: and, after longer standing, it became blotched
with various colours, as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and
violet.
14. A quantity of the water being put in a gentle heat, this cremor was
quickly separated from it, and appeared on the surface of the water. A
like quantity of the water, with its cremor already upon its surface,
was put over a gentle heat, which by degrees broke the cremor into very
small parts; but whether they did evaporate, or precipitate in the
water, I could not be certain. But, by other trials, this cremor was
found to have a great degree of fixity, bearing a considerable heat
without avolation; yet not without the appearance of some of its parts
flying off, altho’ most of them were fixed; because what remained lost
its fine colours, and was changed into a shining chalybeat colour.
15. The water of the lower spring afforded a much less quantity of the
cremor, than the water of the upper spring. It took also a longer time
to separate, was of a blueish colour, and had not the vivid colours,
which the water of the upper spring shewed.
16. When ol. tart. p.d. and spirit of sal ammoniac were added to the
water, it did not separate its cremor.
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