349225Touching Metals and Minerals.
THe third Letter of the Croſs-Row, is the variation of Metals into
ſeveral Shapes, Bodies, or Natures; the particulars whereof ſol-
low.
ſeveral Shapes, Bodies, or Natures; the particulars whereof ſol-
low.
Tincture.
Turning to Ruſt.
Calcination.
Sublimation.
Precipitation.
Amalgamàtizing, or turning into aſoft Body.
Vitrification.
Opening or Diſſolving into Liquor.
Sprouting, or Branching, or Arboreſcence.
Induration and Mollification.
Making tough or brittle.
Volatility and Fixation.
Tranſmutation or Verſion.
For Tincture, it is to be enquired how Metals may be tincted, through
and through; and with what, and into what colours: As Tincting-Silver
yellow, Tincting-Copper white, and Tincting red, green, blew, eſpecial-
ly with keeping the luſtre.
and through; and with what, and into what colours: As Tincting-Silver
yellow, Tincting-Copper white, and Tincting red, green, blew, eſpecial-
ly with keeping the luſtre.
Item, Tincture of Glaſs.
Item, Tincture of Marble, Flint, or other Stone.
For turning to Ruſt, two things are chiefly to be enquired:
By what
Corroſives it is done, and into what colours it turns: As Lead into white,
which they call Serus; Iron into yellow, which they call Crocus Martis:
Quick-ſilver into Vermilion, Braſs into green, which they call Verdegraß,
& c.
Corroſives it is done, and into what colours it turns: As Lead into white,
which they call Serus; Iron into yellow, which they call Crocus Martis:
Quick-ſilver into Vermilion, Braſs into green, which they call Verdegraß,
& c.
For Calcination, to enquire how every Metal is calcined?
And
into what kinde of Body? And what is the exquiſiteſt way of Calcina-
tion?
into what kinde of Body? And what is the exquiſiteſt way of Calcina-
tion?
For Sublimation, to enquire the manner of Subliming;
and what
Metals endure Subliming; and what Body the Sublimate makes?
Metals endure Subliming; and what Body the Sublimate makes?
For Precipitation likewiſe, By what ſtrong Waters every Metal will
precipitate? or with what Additaments? and in what time? and into what
Body?
precipitate? or with what Additaments? and in what time? and into what
Body?
So for Amalgama, what Metals will endure it?
What are the means
to do it? And what is the manner of the Body?
to do it? And what is the manner of the Body?
For Vitrification like wiſe, what Metals will endure it?
what are
the means to do it? into what colour it turns? and further, where the
the means to do it? into what colour it turns? and further, where the