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

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              imaginable how this
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              Phænomenon
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              could
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              proceed from any miſtake in trying
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              the Experiment, yet the ſtrangeneſſe
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              of it invited me to repeat it with freſh
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              Spirit of Wine; which, ſwelling in the
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              Neck as formerly, I left all Night in
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              the Receiver, allowing free acceſs to the
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              external Air at the Stop-cock, and the
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              next day found it ſtill expanded as be­
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              fore, ſave that it ſeem'd a little lower:
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              which decrement perhaps proceeded from
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              the avolation of ſome of the fugitive
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              parts of ſo volatile a Liquor. </s>
              <s>And for
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              better ſatisfaction having taken out the
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              Glaſs, and conſider'd it in the open Air,
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              and at a Window, I could not finde that
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              there was any remaining Bubbles that
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              could occaſion the perſevering and ad­
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              mir'd expanſion. </s>
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              <s>BEing deſirous to diſcover what diffe­
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              rence there might be as to gravity and
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              levity, between Air expanded under Wa­
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              ter, and it ſelfe before ſuch expanſion; we
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              took two very ſmall Viols, ſuch as Chy­
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              mical Eſſences (as they call them) are wont
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              to be kept in, and of the ſize and ſhape ex­
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              preſſed by the 8
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              th
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              Figure: into one of theſe </s>
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