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

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              receive it. </s>
              <s>As ſoon as the neck had reach'd
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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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              with the Nails into the Liquor to fly up
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              again. </s>
              <s>But whence this firſt bubble was
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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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              Men­
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              ſtruum,
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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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              mouth'd Glaſs was by this means almoſt </s>
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