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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ple, which event, though it were no other
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then we expected, was differing from what
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what change would have appear'd in the
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Water upon the Bottles being ſuddenly
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unſtopp'd, in a place where the ambient
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Body was ſo differing from our common
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Viol, but leſs ſtrongly cloſ'd then for
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merly, though as ſtrongly ſtopt as ſeem'd
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requiſite on ordinary occaſions: But when
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the Air was pump'd out of the Receiver,
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that within the Viol did quickly, as we
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expected, find or make it ſelf little paſſa
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ges to get out at: as we argu'd, from this,
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That whereas when the Viol was put in
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the time before, the Water remain'd all
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the while perfectly free from bubbles; at
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this time the bottom of the Glaſs ap
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pear'd all cover'd with them, and they,
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upon the regreſs of the excluded Air into
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the Receiver, did preſently flag and ſhrink
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>From theſe tryals it ſeem'd deducible
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enough, that whil'ſt the Viol continu'd
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to be well ſtopt, the included Water
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did, from the Air, ſhut up with it,
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ſuſtain a preſſure equal to that of the
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Atmoſphere; ſince till the Air could get </
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