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February 8, 1683-4.-Mr. Destnasters gave us a farther account of ye expansion of Ice. He told us, that whereas the water he made use of lately (in some experiments of this kind, mention'd in the pre-ceeding Minutes) was a sort of rough pump-water, which he has found turn milky and turbid immediately upon ye affusion of oyl of tartar per Deliquium; and considering also, that ye Ice made of this Water was a sort of rarified white Ice, he was hereby inclined to try, whether River water (which would readily mix with oyl of Tartar, without ye least precipitation) would, upon freezing, be expanded to ye height of ye pump-water above mentioned. In order where-unto, he fill'd a glass tube of almost an inch diameter, with river water, to ye height of 6 inches (as he had done in ye former triall,) and then putting it to freeze in a mixture of snow, and salt, it gained butof an inch, after it was frozen; whereas ye pump-water got I of an inch.
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Early Science at Oxford. Nature 115, 212 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115212a0
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