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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the bottom of the Liquor it was dipp'd
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into, there appear'd at the upper part
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(which was before the bottom) of the
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Viol a bubble, of about the bigneſs of
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a Pea, which ſeem'd rather to conſiſt of
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ſmall and recent bubbles, produc'd by the
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action of the diſſolving Liquor upon the
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Iron, then any parcel of the external Air
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that might be ſuſpected to have got in
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upon the inverſion of the Glaſs, eſpeci
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ally ſince we gave time to thoſe little
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Particles of Air which were carried down
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produced, is not ſo material to our Expe
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riment, in regard it was ſo ſmall: For
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ſoon after we perceiv'd the bubbles
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produced by the action of the
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upon the Metal aſcending co
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piouſly to the bubble already named, and
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breaking into it, did ſoon exceedingly in
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creaſe it, and by degrees depreſs the wa
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ter lower and lower, till at length the ſub
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ſtance contain'd in theſe bubbles poſſeſſed
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the whole cavity of the Glaſs Viol, and
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almoſt of its Neck too, reaching much
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lower in the Neck then the ſurface of the
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ambient Liquor, wherewith the open
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