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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the Receiver together with a ligh
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ted piece of Match, a great Bladder well
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tyed at the Neck, but very lank, as not
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containing actually much (if any thing) a
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partly to try whether or no the ſmoke of
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the Match, repleniſhing the Receiver,
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would be able to hinder the Dilatation of
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the inward Air, upon the exſuction of the
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Match did proceed from want of Air, or
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barely from the preſſure of its own
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Fumes, which for want of room to ex
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pand themſelves in, might be ſuppoſ'd
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to Recoyl upon the Fire, and ſo to
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at the beginning of our Pumping the
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it had almoſt fill'd the Receiver with
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its plentiful Fumes: But by degrees it
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burnt more and more dimly, notwith
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