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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to what I have ſeen happen
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in the diſſolution of Seed-Pearl in ſome
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in which, if a good quan
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tity of the little Pearls be caſt whole, they
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will at firſt, if the
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Glaſs, this Experiment may be try'd in
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one of our ſmalleſt Receivers, for there
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the exſuction of the ambient Air may be
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perform'd ſo nimbly, that immediately
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the bubbles lurking in the Water are al
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low'd to diſplay themſelves, and aſcend
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in throngs; inſomuch, as having in ſuch
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a Receiver try'd the Experiment with
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Wine (as a more ſpirituous Liquor) in
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ſtead of Water, the Red-Wine appear'd
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all cover'd, with a copious, but vaniſhing
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white Froth, almoſt as if a Veſſel full of
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Doctrine of Meteors, and perhaps of
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ſome other Phyſiological difficulties, to
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