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

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              Receiver, we afterwards repeated the Ex­
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              periment, to try what change the exſucti­
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              on of the external Air would produce in
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              the Water, after the internal and latitant
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              Air had (as is above recited) in great mea­
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              ſure got away in bubbles, and whether or
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              no the Water would by ſtanding re-admit
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              any new particles of Air in the room of
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              thoſe that had forſaken it. </s>
              <s>But though
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              we exhauſted the Receiver very diligent­
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              ly, yet we ſcarce ſaw a bubble in either
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              of the Glaſſes; notwithſtanding which,
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              we perceiv'd the Water to riſe about the
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              breadth of a Barly-corn, or more, in the
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              Neck of that Glaſs wherein the ſolid Cy­
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              linder had been put; The Liquor in the
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              other Glaſs not ſenſibly ſwelling. </s>
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              <s>And laſtly, upon the letting in of the
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              Air, the Water in the ſtraightned Neck
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              ſoon ſubſided to the mark above which
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              it had ſwollen, which whether it ought
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              to be aſcrib'd to the ſame ſmall expanſion
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              of the parts of the Water it ſelf, or to
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              the rarifaction of ſome yet latitant Air
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              broken into ſuch ſmall particles, as to e­
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              ſcape our obſervation, ſeems not eaſily
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              determinable, without ſuch further tryals,
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              as would perhaps prove tedious to be re­
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              cited as well as to be made; though I was </s>
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