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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Experiment, namely, That from the ſole
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ſwelling of Water there recorded, it can
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not be ſo ſafely concluded that Water,
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when freed from compreſſion, is endowd
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with an Elaſtical power of expanding it
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ſelf, ſince thereby it appears that the In
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tumeſcence produc'd by that Experiment,
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may (at leaſt in great part) be aſcrib'd to
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the numerous little bubbles which are
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wont to be produc'd in Water, from
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which the preſſure of the Atmoſphere is
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ſider not that moſt Effects may proceed
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from various Cauſes, or minde onely thoſe
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Circumſtances of our Experiment, which
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>And hence it ſeems alſo probable, that
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in the Pores or inviſible little receſſes of
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Water it ſelf there lie commonly inter
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ſperſ'd many parcels of either Air, or at
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leaſt ſomething Analogous thereunto, al
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though ſo very ſmall that they have not
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