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

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              does not really upon the ceaſing of its un­
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              uſual agitation by little and little relapſe
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              into water, I ſhould ſtrongly ſuſpect that
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              'tis poſſible for Water to be eaſily turn'd
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              into Air. </s>
              <s>I remember indeed, that we
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              have formerly taught that there lurks an
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              interſperſed Air in the pores of ordinary
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              Water, which may poſſibly be ſtruck out
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              by the breaking of the Water in its fall
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              into the Æolian Chamber, (as he calls it.)
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              But in regard the Scheme ſeems to repre­
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              ſent that Chamber as cloſely ſhut, and
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              thereby forbids us to ſuppoſe that any Air
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              is carried into it but what is latitant in the
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              Water, it will ſcarce ſeem probable to
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              him who remembers how ſmall a propor­
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              tion of Air, that appear'd to be when its
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              rarification ſeaſed, which was conceal'd in
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              the Water we freed from bubbles in our
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              Receiver, that ſo little Air as is common­
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              ly diſperſ'd through Water, ſhould be a­
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              ble, in ſo little Water as was requiſite for
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              ſo ſmall a room, to make ſo vehement a
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              Wind as our Author here tells us of. </s>
              <s>I
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              have ſometime therefore ſuſpected, that
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              in this caſe the Wind may be produc'd by
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              ſmall particles of the water it ſelf, forci­
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              bly expell'd out of the Chamber into the
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              Organs. </s>
              <s>And to the Objection to which </s>
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