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52. The neutral falts moft ufually found in afhes, are tartar vitriolate, glauber's fait, common fait, digeftive fait, and felenite, alfo hepar fulphuris ; according to Model a pound of rhubarb contains an ounce and a half of felenite. Hence we fee why clay is fo unfavourable to vegetation, and how calcareous Earth i$ introduced into the bodies of animals. Animal Earth? is obtained either from the {hells of fifh, or from thofe of eggs, or from pearls, or from the bones, horns, claws of Jand ani...mals, or from the {kins of i That obtained from the fhells of fifh and from thofe of eggs, is found by repeated expe- riments to be purely calcareous ; only oyfter {hells difcover fome feeble veftiges of felenite. Bergm, on Scheffer, 173, that obtained from Elements of Mineralogy. From bones, horns, claws, teeth, &c. Was found by Mr. Gabn, to be a calcareous Earth united to the phofphoric acid ; hence the folution of bones in the mineral acids can never be neutralized, a circumftance which puzzled all preceeding chymifts, but which is now perfectly underftood, as fuch folution is in facl: only the folution of a neutral fait if the bones be diflblved in the nitrous or marine acids, or a decompofition of a neu- tral fait, if the vitriolic acid be ufed as a folvent ; in either cafe a free unfaturated acid muft be found.
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