Boyle, Robert
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New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects
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1660
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throughout; we cauſ'd it in the lately
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mention'd Wier, to be ſpeedily convey'd
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and ſhut up into the Receiver, being de
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ſirous to try what would become of a
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glowing Body, by reaſon of its texture
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more vehemently hot then a burning
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Coal of the ſame bigneſs, & yet unlike to
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ſend forth ſuch copious & ſtifling Fumes:
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But we could not obſerve any manifeſt
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change upon the exſuction of the Air.
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>The Iron began indeed to loſe its Fiery
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redneſs at the top, but that ſeem'd to be
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becauſe it was it the upper end ſomewhat
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more ſlender then at the lower: The red
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neſs, though it were in the day time, con
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tinued viſible about four minutes; and
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then, before it did quite diſ-appear, we
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turn'd the Key of the Stop-cock but
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could not diſcern any change of the Iron
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upon the ruſhing in of the Air. </
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little remainders of Wax that ſtuck to
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the Wier, and were turn'd into Fumes by
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the heat of the neighboring Iron, ſeem'd
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to afford a more plentiful, or at leaſt a
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much more free expanded ſmoke when
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the Air was ſuck'd out, then afterwards;
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though allowance was made for the de
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notwithſtanding a conſiderable exſuction </
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