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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have otherwiſe done: So that before the
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Fire or the Match was quite extinct, the
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we took a ſmall Receiver, capable of
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containing (by gueſs) about a pound and
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a half of Water; and in the midſt of it
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we ſuſpended a lighted Match, but though
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we had cemented on the Cover, yet we
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could not make ſuch haſte, but that before
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we began to pump, the Smoke had ſo
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fill'd that ſmall Receiver, as for ought we
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again and again reiterated the Experi
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ment, it ſeem'd ſtill as at firſt, that we
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could not cloſe up the Veſſel and pump
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out all the Fumes time enough to reſcue
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the Fire from Extinction; whereupon we
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we had pump'd once or twice, we ſudden
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ly turn'd the Key, and thereby gave acceſs
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to the excluded Air, which ruſhing vio
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lently in, as if it had been forced thorow
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a pair of Bellows, did both drive away
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