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

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              hot Iron, with ſome Body eaſie to be
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              diſſipated into ſmoke ſet upon it, but con­
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              ſider'd, that neither was that way free
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              from inconveniencies; eſpecially this, that
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              the hot Body would make the Impriſon'd
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              Air circulate within the Receiver, and
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              conſequently make it queſtionable whe­
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              ther the aſcent of the ſteams would not
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              be due to the new and acquired motion of
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              the Air. </s>
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              <s>Wherefore I bethought my ſelf of an­
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              other way to ſatisfie in ſome meaſure my
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              curioſity, to wit, by means of a certain
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              Liquor, which I call'd to minde that ſome
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              years ago I had (for a deſign that belongs
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              not to our preſent purpoſe) prepar'd;
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              which, I ſuppoſe, I ſhew'd Your Lord­
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              ſhip, and which had the luck to be ta­
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              ken notice of by divers very Ingenious
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              and Famous Men. </s>
              <s>For this Liquor,
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              though moſt of its Ingredients be Metals,
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              and all of them ponderous enough, is yet
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              of that nature, that whilſt the Viol where­
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              in it is kept is ſtopt (how ſlight a Cover
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              ſoever) both the Liquor and the Glaſs
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              are tranſparent; and ſo is that upper half
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              of the Glaſs to which the Liquor reaches
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              not. </s>
              <s>But aſſoon as ever the ſtopple is ta­
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              ken out, and full acceſs is given to the ex-</s>
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