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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And though the Quick-ſilver were by
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this means brought to appear a very cloſe
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and lovely Metalline Cylinder, not inter
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rupted by interſperſ'd bubbles as before;
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yet having cauſ'd the Air to be again
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drawn out of the Receiver, I could per
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ceive ſeveral little bubbles to diſcloſe
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themſelves, faſten'd to the inſide of the
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Tube, near the bottom of it; and having
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purpoſely watch'd one or two of the chief
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eſt, I had the pleaſure to obſerve, that
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though they grew bigger and bigger as
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the ſurface of the Mercurial Cylinder fell
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nearer and nearer to them, ſo as that at
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length they ſwell'd into a conſpicuous
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bulk; yet upon the wary letting in the
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Air upon them, they did not break, but
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>Whence it ſeems very probable, if not
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certain, that even in the cloſeſt and moſt
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ponderous Liquors, and therefore much
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more in Water, there may lurk undiſcern
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able parcels of Air, capable, upon the
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removal of the preſſure of the ambient
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Air (though but in part) and that of the
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Liquor wherein it lurks, to produce con
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