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  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    highly valued by Mr. Boyle, as an excellent Vomit. The same Butter precipitates, by warm Water, into a white, ponderous Powder, or Calx, called Mercurius Vitae, and Powder of Algaroth; reputed a violent Emetic. Of Butter of Antimony is also prepared the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ARCANUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCANUM

    of red precipitate; made by distilling it with spirit of nitre, and repeating the distillation again and again, till a red powder is procured. This powder boiled in water, and the water poured off, and tartarized spirit of wine put to the powder; two or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    &c. i.e. is a hot, luminous, electrical Body, though without these Conditions it has none of those Properties. So Gunpowder, otherwise a Mass of dark, inert, motionless Matter; being only touched with a lighted Brand, instantly blazes up, and smokes,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • ARSENIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARSENIC

    as practiced in Hungary, is given us by Dr. Krieg, in the Philosophical Transactions, N° 293.—The Cobalt being beaten to powder, and the light sandy part washed off, by a current of water, they put what remains in a furnace; the flame of which passing...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • GUN-Powderhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/GUN-Powder

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALABASTERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ALABASTER

    cast into a Mould, where it readily coagulates into a firm Body. See PLASTER. Alabaster, Mr. Boyle observes, being finely powdered, and thus set in a Basin over the Fire; will, when hot, assume the Appearance of a Fluid, by rolling in Waves, yielding to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ATTENUATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTENUATION

    among the alchemists, we sometimes find the word used for pulverization, or the act of reducing a body into an impalpable powder. See POWDER and PULVERIZATION. ATTENUATION

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALGAROThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALGAROT

    or Algaroth, in the Arabian Chemistry, a Powder prepared of Butter of Antimony; being in reality no more than the Regulus of that Mineral, dissolved in Acids, and separated again by means of several Lotions with lukewarm Water, which imbibes those...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry

  • ALCOHOLhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALCOHOL

    behind. See SPIRIT, DISTILLATION, RECTIFICATION, &c. The Word Alcohol is sometimes also used for a very fine, impalpable Powder. See POWDER. The Word is formed from the Arabic or Hebrew kaal, to lessen, attenuate, subtilize. ALCOHOL

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry

  • AURUM FULMINANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURUM%20FULMINANS

    FULMINANS. It is inflammable, not only by fire, but also by a gentle heat and gives a report much louder than that of gunpowder. Its effect is commonly said to be principally downwards; in opposition to gunpowder, which is chiefly upwards; but this...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    at length rarified by such Heat or Fermentation, become true permanent Air.' Opticks— 'Thus, the same Author adds, 'Gunpowder generates Air by Explosion.' ibid. We have here, therefore, not only the materials whereof Air should be made; but the means of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • AMALGAMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/AMALGAMATION

    pressed out through a linen Cloth: The rest being evaporated in a Crucible, the Gold remains behind in an impalpable Powder. See GOLD. Gold retains about thrice its own weight of Mercury. This Operation is denoted among Chemists by the Letters AAA. See...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry

  • ASARABACKAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASARABACKA

    it as a Diuretic. But it is chiefly used among us as a Sternutatory, in order to which, it is dried and reduced to a Powder, to be taken as a Snuff; in which Quality it drains the Head ofmucous Humours. ASARABACKA

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AMMUNITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMMUNITION

    in general, signifies all sorts of warlike Stores and Provisions, more especially Powder and Ball. See MUNITION. The Word is formed of the Latin Amonitio, which, according to Du Cange, was used in the corrupt State of that Language for Subsistence....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ETHEREALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ETHEREAL

    of crude Quicksilver and Flower of Sulphur, in a Stone or Iron Mortar; till they become incorporated into a black Powder. See MERCURY.It is prescribed for the Worms, and all Crudities and Acrimony of the Humours; and is reputed infallible against the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AROMATIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AROMATIC

    many stomachic ones. See CARDIAC, CARMINATIVE, CEPHALIC, STOMACHIC, etc. The Aromaticum Rosatum, is a compound officinal powder, made of red roses, liquorice, aloes wood, yellow sanders, cinnamon, cloves, mace, gum, tragacanth, nutmegs, cardamoms,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANATRONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANATRON

    also a volatile Salt, skimmed from the Composition of Glass, when in fusion. See GLASS. When pounded, it yields a kind of Powder; which being dissolved in the Air, or in a proper Liquor, becomes common Salt, after Coagulation. Natron is likewise the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER

    LIGHT, etc. Amber is reputed of some medicinal Efficacy; being used in Suffumigations, to remove Defluxions; and in Powder, as an Alterant, Absorbent, Sweetener, and Astringent. See SUFFUMIGATION, ABSORBENT, ASTRINGENT, etc. In times of Plague, those...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History
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