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

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              by blowing the almoſt extinguiſh'd Fire,
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              re-kindl'd it, as appear'd by the Matches
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              beginning again to ſmoke, which before it
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              had ceaſ'd to do; we having by this
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              means obtain'd a lighted Match in the
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              Receiver, without being reduc'd to ſpend
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              time to cloſe it up, commanded the Air
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              to be immediatly pump'd out, and found
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              that upon the exſuction of it, the Match
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              quickly left ſmokeing, as it ſeem'd, by
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              reaſon of the abſence of the Air; and
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              yet if ſome urgent occaſions had not hin­
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              der'd us, we would for greater ſecurity
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              have try'd, whether or no the Match re­
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              kindled as formerly, would ſmoke much
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              longer, in caſe of no exſuction of the am­
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              bient Air. </s>
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              <s>TO try diverſe things at once,
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              and particularly whether Fire,
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              though we found it would not long laſt,
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              might not yet be produced in our eva­
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              cuated Receiver: We took a Piſtol of
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              about a Foot in length, and having
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              firmly tyed it to a ſtick almoſt as long as
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              the Cavity of the Receiver, we very
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              carefully prim'd it with well dry'd Gun­
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              powder, and then cocking it, we ty'd to </s>
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