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

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              <s>The Air being ſparingly let into the
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              Receiver, the great bubbles formerly
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              mention'd as incumbent upon one ano­
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              ther, in that Glaſs that contain'd the Spi­
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              rit of Urine, were by orderly degrees
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              leſſen'd, till at length they wholly ſubſi­
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              ded, notwithſtanding the receſs of ſo ma­
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              ny bubbles as broke on the top of the
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              Spirit of Urine, during all the time of the
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              Experiment; yet it ſcarcely appear'd at all
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              to be ſunk below the mark: Nor did the
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              mixture of Spirit of Wine and Water
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              conſiderably ſubſide. </s>
              <s>But that is no­
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              thing to what we obſerv'd in the Spirit
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              of Wine, for not onely it conſpicuouſly
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              expanded it ſelf in the Neck of the
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              Veſſel that contain'd it, notwithſtand­
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              ing the largeneſs of it; and that the
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              bubbles were about to break at the
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              top of it almoſt aſſoon as they arriv'd
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              there: but upon the re-admiſſion of
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              the external Air, the Spirit of Wine
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              retain'd its newly acquired expanſion.
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              <s>And though we let it alone for near
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              an hour together, in expectation that it
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              might ſubſide; yet when we took it
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              out, we found it ſtill ſwell'd between a
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              quarter and half an Inch above the
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              mark; and although it was not eaſily </s>
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