Jean Rey Quote
The condensed air becomes attached to [the metallic calx], and adheres little by little to the smallest of its particles: thus its weight increases from the beginning to the end: but when all is saturated, it can take up no more.
The Increase in Weight of Tin and Lead on Calcination (1630), Alembic Club Reprint (1895)
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