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

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              ſeem'd to proceed from the Air before
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              impriſon'd in the Viol, and diffuſing it
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              ſelf ſuddenly into the capicity of the
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              Receiver. </s>
              <s>Yet we afterward obſerv'd,
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              as we expected, That the fumes did not
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              mount and diſperſe themſelves as they
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              uſe to do in the open Air, but that, when
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              by reaſon of the agitation of the Cor­
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              puſcles of the Liquor, which could not
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              continue their motion in ſo narrow a
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              ſpace as the Viol afforded them, and were
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              therefore reduc'd to thruſt one another
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              out of it; when, I ſay, by theſe aſſi­
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              ſtances the fumes were aſcended to the lip
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              of the Viol, they mounted no higher,
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              but ran down along the out-ſide of the
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              Viol to the bottom of it; and thence
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              along, a long and inclining piece of Lead,
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              on which the Viol reſted, like a little
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              Stream (not very much bigger then a
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              Swans Quill) whoſe nature it ſeemd to e­
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              mulate ſo well, that it quitted not the Viol
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              till it was come to the bottom of it, and
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              then forſook it in ſuch a manner as a
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              ſtream of Water of the ſame bigneſs
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              would have done. </s>
              <s>And this ſtream laſted
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              a pretty while, and would probably have
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              laſted longer, but that being loath to waſte
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              my Liquor, I let in at the Stop-cock a </s>
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