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"ref": "1664, Robert Boyle, chapter 1, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours, London: Henry Herringman, page 114",
"text": "[…] I have for Trials sake taken Lumps of Rock Crystal, and Heating them Red hot in a Crucible, I found according to my Expectation, that being Quench’d in Fair water, even those that remain’d in seemingly entire Lumps, exchang’d their Translucency for Whiteness […]",
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"ref": "1718, Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Part of Italy, London: J. Tonson, pages 22–23",
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"ref": "1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 5, in Brideshead Revisited, Boston: Little, Brown, page 131",
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