Robert Boyle

When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call “glass”.

Combination

Making new compounds by new combinations.

Commixtion

An exact commixtion of the ingredients.

Compliment

I make the interlocutors, upon occasion, compliment with one another.

Concentration

Concentration of the lunar beams.

Concrete

To divide all concretes, minerals and others, into the same number of distinct substances.

Confer

If we confer these observations with others of the like nature, we may find cause to rectify the general opinion.

Confidence

I am confident that very much be done.

Confluence

The confluence . . . of all true joys.

Conglutinate

Bones . . . have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days.

Constant

If . . . you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body.

Constellate

Whe know how to constellate these lights.

Constipation

Fullness of matter, or a pretty close constipation . . . of its particles.

Convention

The conventions or associations of several particles of matter into bodies of any certain denomination.

Convergent

As many rays of light, as conveniently can be let in, and made convergent.

Corrode

Aqua fortis corroding copper . . . is wont to reduce it to a green-blue solution.

Coruscation

A very vivid but exceeding short-lived splender, not to call t a little coruscation.

Counterbalance

The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder.

Counterpoise

Fastening that to our exact balance, we put a metalline counterpoise into the opposite scale.

Crack

By misfortune it cracked in the coling.

Crust

The whole body is crusted over with ice.

Deeply

The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries.

Defecate

To defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber.

Deflagrability

The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter.

Demerge

The water in which it was demerged.

Depurate

To depurate the mass of blood.

Destructor

Fire, the destructor and the artificial death of things.

Desultoriness

The seeming desultoriness of my method.

Discern

To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms.

Dispositively

Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once.

Dissimilar

This part very dissimilar to any other.

Dissuasion

In spite of all the dissuasions of his friends.

Docibility

To persons of docibility, the real character may be easily taught in a few days.

Excusable

The excusableness of my dissatisfaction.

Extensive

Silver beaters choose the finest coin, as that which is most extensive under the hammer.

Eye

Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.

Flourish

The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed.

Flush

The flushing noise of many waters.

Glary

Bright, crystal glass is glary.

Happy

Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them.

Hypostatic

The grand doctrine of the chymists, touching their three hypostatical principles.

Ignore

Philosophy would solidly be established, if men would more carefully distinguish those things that they know from those that they ignore.

Immerge

We took . . . lukewarm water, and in it immerged a quantity of the leaves of senna.

Immixed

How pure and immixed the design is.

Immolate

Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women.

Implication

Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts.

Incidental

I treat either or incidentally of colors.

Incinerate

It is the fire only that incinerates bodies.

Indagator

Searched into by such skillful indagators of nature.

Indefinite

It were to be wished that . . . men would leave off that indefinite way of vouching, “the chymists say this,” or “the chymists affirm that.”

Ineffectual

The peony root has been much commended, . . . and yet has been by many found ineffectual.

Inferiority

A deep sense of our own great inferiority.

Inquisitively

The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively apply himself to the study of physic.

Instructive

The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture.

Interclude

So all passage of external air into the receiver may be intercluded.

Lactescence

This lactescence does commonly ensue when . . . fair water is suddenly poured upon the solution.

Ladle

When the materials of glass have been kept long in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen take off with ladles.

Match

Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.

Materially

I do not mean that anything is separable from a body by fire that was not materially preexistent in it.

Pip

To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg.

Preëngagement

My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write.

Pursue

I have, pursues Carneades, wondered chemists should not consider.

Put

I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue.

Reach

The new world reaches quite across the torrid zone.

Readdress

He readdressed himself to her.

Refulgent

So conspicuous and refulgent a truth.

Relent

[Salt of tartar] placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent.

Retain

A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness.

Rude

The rude agitation [of water] breaks it into foam.

Separable

Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold.

Set

That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set.

Shoot

The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one another.

Shy

I am very shy of using corrosive liquors in the preparation of medicines.

Speak

That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak.

Split

A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water.

Stability

Since fluidness and stability are contrary qualities.

Starlike

The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness.

State

Keep the state of the question in your eye.

Steam

The dissolved amber . . . steamed away into the air.

Still

Chemists would be rich if they could still do in great quantities what they have sometimes done in little.

Stretch

The inner membrane . . . because it would stretch and yield, remained umbroken.

Substrate

The melted glass being supported by the substrated sand.

Sufficiency

His sufficiency is such that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted.

Swing

I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air.

Systematic

These ends may be called cosmical, or systematical.

This

A body of this or that denomination is produced.

Tingent

As for the white part, it appears much less enriched with the tingent property.

Turgid

A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.

Uneasy

Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood.