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

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              cloſe themſelves, and to increaſe as the
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              preſſure of the Air in the Receiver de­
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              creaſ'd. </s>
              <s>But whereas in the firſt men­
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              tion'd Philoſophical Egge the bubbles
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              were very ſmall, and never able to ſwell
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              the Water, that we took notice of, at all
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              above the mark: In the other, whoſe
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              Neck, as we lately ſaid, was ſtraightned,
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              and their paſſage obſtructed, great num­
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              bers of them, and bigger, faſtned them­
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              ſelves to the lower end of the Glaſs ram­
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              mer (if we may ſo call it) and gather'd in
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              ſuch numbers between that and the ſides
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              of the Neck, that the Water ſwell'd a­
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              bout a Fingers breadth above the mark,
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              though upon the admitting of the exter­
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              nal Air it relapſ'd to the former mark, or
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              rather fell ſomewhat below it. </s>
              <s>And al­
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              though thereupon in the firſt nam'd Veſ­
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              ſel all the bubbles preſently diſ-appear'd,
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              yet in the other we obſerv'd, that divers
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              remained faſtned to the lower part of the
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              Glaſs rammer, and continued there ſome­
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              what to our wonder, for above an hour
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              after, but contracted in their Dimen­
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              ſions. </s>
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              <s>Moreover, having ſuffered the Glaſſes
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              to remain above twenty four hours in the </s>
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