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 Book.1.Of the Art of Ditillation. 9 Calcination, is a reducing of any thing into a Calx, and making it friable, and it may be done two waies - -by firing -By reducing into ahes -By reverberating; -by Coroion -By amalgamation -Precipitation -Fumigation or vaporation, -Cementation or tratification. Circulation, is when any liquor is o placed in digetion, that it hall rie up and fall down, rie up and fall down, and o doe continually, and thereby become more digeted, and mature, for which ue for the mot part we ue a Pellican. Clarification, is the eparating of the gros feces from any decoction or juice, and it is done three ways - By the white of an egge, - By digetion, - By filtration. Coagulation, is the reducing of any liquid thing to a thicker ubtance by evaporating the humidity. Cohobation, is the frequent abtraction of any liquor, poured oft-times on the feces from whence it was ditilled, by ditillation. Congelation, is when any liquor being decocted to the hight, is afterward by ettling into any cold place turned into a tranparent ubtance like unto yce. Corroion, is the Calcining of bodies by corroive things.

Decantation, is the pouring off of any liquor which hath a etling by inclination. Deliquium, is the diolving of a hard body into a liquor, as alt, or the powder of any calcined matter, &c. in a moit, cold place. Decenion, is when the eential juice diolved from the matter to be ditilled doth decend, or fall downward. Depumation, is the taking off the froth that floats on the top with a poon or feather, or by percolation. Ditillation, is the extracting of the humid part of things by vertue of heat, being firt reolved into a vapour, and then CCon-