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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now afford it; namely that the Elaſtical
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Power of the ſame Quantity of Air may
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be as well Encreaſ'd by the Agitation of
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the Aërial Particles (whether onely mo
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ving them more ſwiftly and ſcattering
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them, or alſo extending or ſtretching
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them out, I determine not) within an
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found that a Bladder, but moderately
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fill'd with Air and ſtrongly ty'd, being
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a while held near the Fire, not onely grew
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exceeding turgid and hard, but after
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wards, being approach'd nearer to the
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Fire, ſuddenly broke with ſo loud and ve
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hement a noiſe, as ſtony'd thoſe that were
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