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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continu'd ſuſpended, began freely to drop
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take a Glaſs Pipe, whether it be in the
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or no, that being for
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the moſt part of the thickneſs of a Mans
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Finger, is yet towards one end ſo ſlen
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der, as to terminate in a hole almoſt as
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ſmall as a Horſe-hair; and if you fill this
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Pipe with Water, you will finde that Li
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quor to drop down freely enough tho
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row the ſlender Extream: But if you then
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invert the Pipe, you will finde that the
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Air will not eaſily get in at the ſame hole
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the ſharp end of the Pipe, ſome Inches
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of Water will remain ſuſpended, which
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'tis probable would not happen, if the
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Air could get in to ſucceed it, ſince if the
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hole were a little wider, the Water would
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true, that if the Pipe be of the length of
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many Inches, a great part of the Wa
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ter will run down at the wider Orifice, yet
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that ſeems to happen for ſome other rea
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ſon, then becauſe the Air ſucceeds it at
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the upper and narrow Orifice, ſince all the
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ſlender part of the Pipe, and perhaps
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ſome Inches more, will continue full of
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