"[A]s there are these several parts that will rarifie and fly, or be driven up by the heat, so are there many others, that as they are indissoluble by the aerial menstruum so are they of such sluggish and gross parts, that they are not easily rarify'd by heat, and therefore cannot be rais'd by it. ...and this is that part which remains behind in a white body call'd Ashes, which contains a substance, or Salt, which Chymists call Alkali..."
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