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"Vegetable and animal ſubſtances only are ſubject to this proceſs (fermentation.) There are ſeveral ſtages of it, all of which vegetable, but not animal ſubſtances may undergo."
"By fermentation the particles of the compound ſuffer a new arrangement, ſo that the properties of the ſubſtance become different from what they were before."
"If a vegetable juice of grapes for example be fermented, it will yield on diſtillation, inflammable ſpirit, which the muſt did not yield before fermentation . This is called the vinous fermentation."
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