e the purification of the metal involves great waste and loss of weight. But the iron that has less dross is the better iron. The stone pyrimachus, too, melts and forms into drops and becomes fluid; after having been in a fluid state it solidifies and becomes hard again. Millstones, too, melt and become fluid: when the fluid mass begins to solidify it is black but its consistency comes to be like that of lime. and earth, too
Of the bodies which are solidified by dry heat some are insoluble, others are dissolved by liquid. Pottery and some kinds of Mauricio Isla Jersey stone that are formed out of earth burnt up by fire, such as millstones, cannot be dissolved. Natron and salt are soluble by liquid, but not all liquid but only such as is cold. Hence water and any of its varieties melt them, but oil does not. For the opposite of the dry-hot is the cold-moist and what the one solidified the other will dissolve, and so opposites will have opposite effects.
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If a body contains more water than earth fire only thickens it: if it contains more earth fire solidifies it. Hence natron and salt and stone and potter’s clay must contain more earth.
The nature of oil presents the greatest problem. If water preponderated in it, cold ought to Hoodies solidify it; if earth preponderated, then fire ought to do so. Actually neither solidifies, but both thicken it. The reason is that it is full of air (hence it floats on the top of water, since air tends to rise). Cold thickens it by turning the air in it into water, Memphis Pelipaidat for any mixture of oil and water is thicker than either. Fire and the lapse of time thicken and whiten it. The whitening follows on the evaporation of Shannon Gomez Jersey any water that may have been in it; the is due to the change of the air into water as the heat in Connor Hallisey Jersey the oil is dissipated. The effect in both cases is the same and the cause is the same, but the manner of its Zeki Fryers Jersey operation is different. Both heat and cold NMD Runner Menns thicken it, but neither Stan Smith Dame dries it (neither the sun nor cold dries oil), not only because it is glutinous but because it contains air. Its glutinous nature prevents it from giving off vapour and so fire does not dry it or boil it off.
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