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Excerpt from Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry, Delivered in the University of Edinburgh, Vol. 3
The knowledge of this incorruptibility of charcoal has given occasion to a most useful contrivance, which has been lately thought Of, for preserving water uncorrupted at sea. Water at sea corrupts, in consequence Of its drawing a tincture, or dissolved matter, from the wood Of the cask.
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