The Sceptical Chymist
The Sceptical Chymist
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But because it may be objected, that these are not real, but apparentColours; that I may not lose time in examing the Distinction, I willalledge against the Chymists, a couple of examples of Real andPermanent Colours Drawn from Metalline Bodies, and represent, thatwithout the addition of any extraneous body, Quicksilver may by theFire alone, and that in glass Vessels, be depriv'd of its silver-likeColour, and be turn'd into a Red Body; and from this Red Body withoutAddition likewise may be obta...in'd a Mercury Bright and Specular as itwas before; So that I have here a lasting Colour Generated andDestroy'd (as I have seen) at pleasure, without adding or taking awayeither Mercury, Salt, or Sulphur; and if you take a clean and slenderpiece of harden'd steel, and apply to it the flame of a candle at somelittle distance short of the point, You shall not have held the Steellong in the flame, but You shall perceive divers Colours, as Yellow, Red and Blew, to appear upon the Surface of the metal, and as it wererun along in chase of one another towards the point; So that the samebody, and that in one and the same part, may not only have a newcolour produc'd in it, but exhibite successively divers Colours withina minute of an hour, or thereabouts, and any of these Colours may byRemoving the Steel from the Fire, become Permanent, and last manyyears.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But because it may be objected, that these are not real, but apparentColours; that I may not lose time in examing the Distinction, I willalledge against the Chymists, a couple of examples of Real andPermanent Colours Drawn from Metalline Bodies, and represent, thatwithout the addition of any extraneous body, Quicksilver may by theFire alone, and that in glass Vessels, be depriv'd of its silver-likeColour, and be turn'd into a Red Body; and from this Red Body withoutAddition likewise may be obta...in'd a Mercury Bright and Specular as itwas before; So that I have here a lasting Colour Generated andDestroy'd (as I have seen) at pleasure, without adding or taking awayeither Mercury, Salt, or Sulphur; and if you take a clean and slenderpiece of harden'd steel, and apply to it the flame of a candle at somelittle distance short of the point, You shall not have held the Steellong in the flame, but You shall perceive divers Colours, as Yellow, Red and Blew, to appear upon the Surface of the metal, and as it wererun along in chase of one another towards the point; So that the samebody, and that in one and the same part, may not only have a newcolour produc'd in it, but exhibite successively divers Colours withina minute of an hour, or thereabouts, and any of these Colours may byRemoving the Steel from the Fire, become Permanent, and last manyyears.
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