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defcendente, aut fummo Sibiriae vltimae ( j . g.gmelin Reife ditrch Sibiiicn von dem ffahr 1733his 1745. Goettingen. 8- P- I. 17> 1. p.;f6.II. 17 f 2.. p. 4) 1. pallas Reife durck verfchiedeneProvinzen des rujfifchen Reichs . 4. Petersb. P. 111.1776. p. 418. laxmann chemifcheAnnat. 1 78 f.Vol. I. p. 244. 245-. fries ibid. 1787- Vol. II.p. j i8-) frigori exponatur, aut cum acidis aliis-que falibus folutis, quae aliis corporibus viciniscaloris materiem auidiflime furripere, docet ex-perientia, in contaftum veniat ( c. blagdenhiftory of the congelation of quickfilver. London.1784.). Eminet porro mercurius fumma par-tium mobUitate, exa&iflima earum, etiam mini-marum, forma globofa, quae diueili praetereafacili opera a fe inuicem poflunt, vt inclufusfirmiflime facco ex corio aut Colidiori panno con-fedto mercurius preflus pluuiae argenteae inftarper minutiflimos eius porcs tfansftillet, et trans-eat omnis, modo ab omni peregrina niaterialiber fit.

Caloris maioris vi aequabiliter expanditur,calore decrefcente conrrahitur mercurius , aequabi-lius longe, quam vini fpiritus (cotte hiftoire dela fociete de mecfecine a Paris pour 1776. p. 360),hinc barometris et thermometris multo aptior; ca-lore vehementiori (g. fr. hildebrandt chemifcheund tnineralogifche Gefchichte des Qiieckfilbers. Braun-fchweig. 4. 1799. p. 4).) in vapores abit, ad6ooivuiii vsque thermometri Fahrenheitiani audo,ebulht, et totus, ii quidern purus fit, in aurasauolat, halitibus, fi infpirentur, nocentiflimis,

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