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 1   I,  7 | strength. For instance when the stone at Aegospotami fell out
 2 III,  6 |        lye or, like cinnabar, a stone compounded of it. The vaporous
 3  IV,  6 |         is the better iron. The stone pyrimachus, too, melts and
 4  IV,  6 |       Pottery and some kinds of stone that are formed out of earth
 5  IV,  7 |       Hence natron and salt and stone and potter’s clay must contain
 6  IV,  7 |        others, like pottery and stone, cannot. The reason is that
 7  IV,  8 |       flesh, sinew, wood, bark, stone and all other homogeneous
 8  IV,  9 |        cannot, like pottery and stone. Those bodies are apt to
 9  IV,  9 |         not comminuted, ice and stone can be comminuted but not
10  IV,  9 |         easily moulded, such as stone or wood, or are easily moulded
11  IV,  9 |  something too hard. Thus iron, stone, water and all liquids are
12  IV,  9 |       some are not, e.g. water, stone. Some things are both tractile
13  IV,  9 |      copper. Some are not, like stone and wood. Things are malleable
14  IV,  9 |     wool, bone are combustible; stone, ice are not. Bodies are
15  IV,  9 |          Of stones the precious stone called carbuncle is least
16  IV,  10|      copper, silver, tin, iron, stone, and everything else of
17  IV,  10|         glass and many nameless stone are of water: for they are
18  IV,  11|     more burning than smoke and stone than water.~
19  IV,  12|      hand in name only, just as stone flutes might still be called
20  IV,  12|         dead eye or one made of stone, just as a wooden saw is