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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ſeem'd to proceed from the Air before
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impriſon'd in the Viol, and diffuſing it
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ſelf ſuddenly into the capicity of the
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as we expected, That the fumes did not
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mount and diſperſe themſelves as they
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uſe to do in the open Air, but that, when
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by reaſon of the agitation of the Cor
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puſcles of the Liquor, which could not
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continue their motion in ſo narrow a
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ſpace as the Viol afforded them, and were
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therefore reduc'd to thruſt one another
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out of it; when, I ſay, by theſe aſſi
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ſtances the fumes were aſcended to the lip
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of the Viol, they mounted no higher,
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but ran down along the out-ſide of the
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Viol to the bottom of it; and thence
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along, a long and inclining piece of Lead,
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on which the Viol reſted, like a little
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Stream (not very much bigger then a
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Swans Quill) whoſe nature it ſeemd to e
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mulate ſo well, that it quitted not the Viol
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till it was come to the bottom of it, and
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then forſook it in ſuch a manner as a
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ſtream of Water of the ſame bigneſs
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a pretty while, and would probably have
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laſted longer, but that being loath to waſte
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