By Michael Faraday

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS. -----~---- research of iVatit:e Caustic Lime*". OX THE local CAUSTIC LIME OF TUSCANY. via THE MARQUIS RIDOLFI. THE fascinating communique of Dr. Giovacchino Taddei respecting his discovery of caustic lime within the water of the traditional bathtub of Santa Gonda, in August 1815, caused me to go to the spot. the subsequent is the results of my researches :- the bathtub is positioned in a laguna within the nook of a box close to the excessive highway to Pisa, whieh divides the obvious known as l. a. Catena from the mountains of Cigoli and San. Miniato. The soil is a mix of clay, calcareous earth, siliceous sand, and vegetable subject. There are resources of water; one concerns from the ground of the laguna, and the opposite from the part. the 1st is sizzling, elevating the thermometer of Reaumur to 35i-°. it's so saturated with lime, that upon cooling the water, it ? Quarterly Jonrnal of Sciencc, i. 2(iO. I reprint this paper at complete lcngth. It was once the

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