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In the latter case the Stopple may be said to
be limited: in the former, it may be said stated (at
least for the purpose, of contradiction at least of distinguishing <add> distinction it from the
other, unlimited [+]
[+] the distinction
should have terms
to express it. There
is frequently brought
occasion to bring it
into notice.
You found much difference,
I think in the effect of agitation according
as the stopple you used employ'd was limited or
unlimited.
Allow me to state I have an objection to an article a term
of nomenclature of your employing. You It is
speak that of Acid Air. By this you mean
the Marine (or Muriatic Acid, as I have
been most used to call it) in the state of vapour:
the state it is always in, when pure. You
mean that and no other: for you treat of
no other in that Section. Now it may turn
out that there are other Airs [+] <add> bodies in the state of vapour
[+](that is bodies
that are can be kept
heat of the
in the
state of vapour)
that are
acid likewise. That called Fixable for example:
if the That called Fixable Air
for example, if the notions of some writers had
been deemed well grounded — The Volatile-Vilnolic, if you could get a quantity of it in
that state to make experiments upon. The
Nitrons, as some might be disposed to refer rank
to under that name, considering its' composition
of Nitrous Acid and Phlogiston. Dr Fordyce
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