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

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              content to ſet down thoſe already men­
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              tion'd, that it might appear how requi­
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              ſite it is in nice Experiments to conſider
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              variety of Circumſtances. </s>
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              <s>AFter having thus diſcover'd what ope­
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              ration the exſuction of the ambient
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              Air had upon Water, we thought good
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              to try alſo what changes would happen in
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              other Liquors upon the like taking off the
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              preſſure of the external Air. </s>
              <s>We took
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              then a Glaſs Egge, ſomewhat bigger then
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              a Turkey Egge, which had a long Neck
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              or Stem of about a 1/3 part of an Inch in
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              Diameter; and filling it up with Sallet
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              Oyl until it reach'd above half way to the
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              top of the Neck, we incloſ'd it in the Re­
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              ceiver together with common Water in
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              a reſembling Veſſel, that we might the
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              better compare together the operation of
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              the exſuction of the Air upon thoſe two
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              Liquors. </s>
              <s>The Pump being ſet a work there
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              began to appear bubbles in the Oyl much
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              ſooner then in the Water, and afterwards
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              they alſo aſcended much more copiouſly
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              in the former Liquor then the latter: Nay,
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              and when by having quite tired the Pum­
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