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

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              more by its own dilatation, which en-
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              creaſ'd proportionably to the exſuction
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              that was made of the Air out of the Re-
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              ceiver.</s>
              <s>So that at length the Water in
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              the ſhorter Leg of the
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              Siphon
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              was re-
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              duc'd partly by the extraction of the am-
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              bient Air, and partly by the expanſion
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              of the great Bubble at the upper part of
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              the
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              Siphon
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              , to be but about a Foot high,
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              if ſo much; wherby it came to paſs,
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              that the courſe of the Water in the
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              Si-
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              phon
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              was interrupted, and that which re-
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              main'd in the longer Leg of it, continu'd
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              ſuſpended there without dropping any
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              longer.</s>
              <s>But upon the turning of the
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              Stop-cock, the outward Air (being t
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              into the Receiver) got into the
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              Siphon
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              by
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              the little hole at which the Water former-
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              ly dropt out; and traverſing all the in-
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              cumbent Cylinder of Water, in the form
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              of Bubbles, joyn'd it ſelf with that Air
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              that before poſlongs;eſlongs;'d the top of the
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              Si-
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              phon
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              <s>To prevent the inconveniences ariſing
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              from theſe Bubbles, two Glaſs Pipes, like
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              the former; were ſo placed; as to termi-
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              nate together in the midſt of the Belly of
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              a Glaſs Viol, into whoſe Neck they
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              were carefully faſtned with Cement; and</s>
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