Corollaries.
1. Quicksilver thus forced by Fire, is turned from a Fluid into Powder, in about the ¹⁄₂₈ part of its whole Weight.
2. From a Silver Brightness, like Looking-Glass, into a shining red Colour.
3. From very insipid Taste, into one very sharp, rough, metallic, and penetrating.
4. From very mild, into sharp, virulent, venomous, disordering the Body, and exciting Pains.
5. From volatile into more fixed; which is no longer volatile by the same Degree of Fire as it flew up with before.
6. As to its other part, it changes into more fluid, in other respects like what it was before.
7. When the Vessel is stopt close, a mechanic Motion, and a small Fire, give Quicksilver a black Colour; a greater Fire gives it a red Colour.