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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full of fair water, you ſhall ſee the Water
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of our Smoke lay ſmooth
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and horizontal, a hot iron were held near
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the our ſide of the Receiver, the Neigh
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bouring part of the included fumes (for
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) being rarified by the heat,
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would readily aſcend in a large Pillar of
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ſmoke to the very top of the Receiver,
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or to be confounded with Air;
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below which, upon the receſs of the ad
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ventitious heat that by agitating it im
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