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

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              <s>A While after we let down into
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              the Receiver together with a ligh­
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              ted piece of Match, a great Bladder well
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              tyed at the Neck, but very lank, as not
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              containing actually much (if any thing) a­
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              bove a Pint of Air, but being capable of
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              containing ten or twelve times as much. </s>
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              <s>Our ſcope in this Experiment was
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              partly to try whether or no the ſmoke of
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              the Match, repleniſhing the Receiver,
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              would be able to hinder the Dilatation of
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              the inward Air, upon the exſuction of the
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              Ambient. </s>
              <s>And partly to diſcover whe­
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              ther the extinction of the Fire in the
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              Match did proceed from want of Air, or
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              barely from the preſſure of its own
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              Fumes, which for want of room to ex­
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              pand themſelves in, might be ſuppoſ'd
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              to Recoyl upon the Fire, and ſo to
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              ſtifle it. </s>
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              <s>The event of our tryal was, That
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              at the beginning of our Pumping the
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              Match appear'd well lighted, though
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              it had almoſt fill'd the Receiver with
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              its plentiful Fumes: But by degrees it
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              burnt more and more dimly, notwith­
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              ſtanding that by the nimble drawing </s>
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