Abstract
Sir, in your excellent papers on the attractive powers of the mineral acids, you shew that metallic calces have stronger attractions to those acids, than alkalies and earths. The following experiments not only confirm this doctrine, but also a position that I have lately ventured to advance, "that certain decompositions will take place in spirit of wine, which will not at all in water, nor in the dry way". I have shewn, that if expressed oil be mixed with slaked lime into a paste, so as to form calcareous soap, and mild alkali be added, the latter will not decompose the former, either in water or by fusion. But that if spirit of wine be substituted for water, an alkaline soap and mild calcareous earth will be formed.
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