of Heat and Cold.
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must be received, to be able suddenly to dissipate the Corpuscles of Lime into their minuter particles, into which (Corpuscles) it seems that the change that the aqueous particles received by associating with the spirituous ones, made them far less fit to penetrate and move briskly there, than if they had enter'd alone.
I made also an Experiment that seems to favour our Conjecture, by shewing how much the Disposition of Lime to Incalescence may depend upon an idoneous Texture, and the Experiment, as I find it registred in one of my Memorials, is this.
EXPER. V.
[Upon Quick-lime we put in a Retort as much moderately strong Spirit of Wine as would drench it, and swim a pretty way above it; and then distilling with a gentle
