"I do not believe that a pure verifiable earth, as a diamond, can be fused even in the focus of the best burning speculums: but supposing that a sufficient heat might be produced... it would then melt, and would even be reduced to vapors, if the heat were sufficiently violent; and when this heat should cease, it would, when it cooled, fix again, and become such a substance as it was before. The same would happen to vitrifiable earth in these circumstances, which does happen to water rendered fluid, and reduced to vapor by a certain heat, and which is again frozen into solid ice when that heat is removed. The differences, therefore, betwixt these two substances are only... in the degrees; but also these differences are very considerable."
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