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

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              alter the diſpoſition of their inſenſible
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              parts, as to become a white and conſiſtent
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              Body. </s>
              <s>And this happens not as in the
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              precipitation of
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              Benjamin,
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              and ſome o­
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              ther Reſinous Bodies, which being diſ­
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              ſolv'd in Spirit of Wine, may, by the effu­
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              ſion of fair Water, be turn'd into a ſeem­
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              ingly Milky ſubſtance. </s>
              <s>For this white­
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              neſs belongs not to the whole Liquor, but
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              to the Corpuſcles of the diſſolv'd Gum,
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              which after a while ſubſiding leave the Li­
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              quor tranſparent, themſelves onely re­
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              maining white: Whereas in our caſe, 'tis
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              from the vary'd texture of the whole for­
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              merly tranſparent fluid Body, and not
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              from this or that part that this whiteneſſe
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              reſults: For the Body is white thorowout,
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              and will long continue ſo; and yet may,
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              in proceſs of time, without any addition,
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              be totally reduc'd into a tranſparent Bo­
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              dy as before. </s>
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              <s>But beſides the Conjecture inſiſted on
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              all this while, we grounded another upon
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              the following Obſervation, which was,
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              That having convey'd ſome ſmoke into
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              our Receiver plac'd againſt a Window, we
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              obſerv'd, that upon the exſuction of the
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              Air, the Corpuſcles that were ſwimming
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              in it, did manifeſtly enough make the Re-</s>
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