Cyclopædia
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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,...
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GUN-Powderhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/GUN-Powder
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/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...
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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...
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