Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660

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              out of the Receiver into the empty'd Cy­
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              linder, the Air in the Receiver being ſud­
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              denly and vehemently expanded, the Tex­
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              ture of it was as ſuddenly alter'd, and the
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              parts made ſo to ſhift places (and perhaps
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              ſome of them to change poſtures) as du­
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              ring their new and vehement Motion and
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              their varied Scituation, to diſturb the
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              wonted continuity and ſo the Diapha­
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              neity of the Air; which (as we have alrea­
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              dy noted) upon its ceaſing to be a tran­
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              ſparent Body, without the interpoſition
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              of colour'd things, muſt eaſily degene­
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              rate into white. </s>
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              <s>Several things there were that made
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              this Conjecture ſeem the leſs improba­
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              ble. </s>
              <s>As firſt, That the whiteneſs al­
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              ways appear'd greater when the Exſucti­
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              on began to be made, whil'ſt there was
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              ſtore of Air in the Receiver, then when
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              the Air was in great part drawn out. </s>
              <s>And
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              next, That, having exhauſted the Re­
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              ceiver, and apply'd to the hole in the
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              Stop-cock a large bubble of clear Glaſs, in
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              ſuch a manner, that we could at pleaſure let
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              the Air paſs out at the ſmall Glaſs into the
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              great one, and eaſily fill the ſmall one with
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              Air again, We obſerv'd with pleaſure, </s>
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