Making and Knowing
A minimal edition of BnF Ms Fr 640 in English Translation

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Mixture

Pure tin, frozen mercury, smells like tin. Iced tin, pure lead, as much of one as of the other, makes a substance that melts very quickly but that is fragile and white. I think that it would be good for soldering. [Takes a] long time to cool.