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Excerpt from Elements of Science and Art, Vol. 2 of 2: Being a Familiar Introduction to Natural Philosophy and Chemistry; Together With Their Application to a Variety of Elegant and Useful Arts
If some oil and some alkali be put together, they will unite and form soap. But if to this a little dilute sulphuric acid be added, the oil and alkali will be separated from each other again, the alkali having a stronger attraction for the acid than it has for the oil, will leave the latter and join the acid.
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