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

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              And laſtly, cloſing up the ſame Taper,
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              lighted again, to diſcover how long it
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              would laſt without drawing out of the
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              Air, we found that it burn'd for a while
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              vividly enough, but afterwards began to
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              be leſſen'd more and more in all its Di­
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              menſions. </s>
              <s>And we obſerv'd that the
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              Flame did not, as before, retire it ſelf by
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              little and little towards the top, but to­
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              wards the bottom of the Week (from
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              which yet it did a little withdraw upwards
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              juſt before it went out) ſo that the upper
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              part of the Week appear'd for a pretty
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              while manifeſtly above the top of the
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              Flame, which having laſted about five
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              minutes, was ſucceeded by a directly aſ­
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              cending ſtream of Smoak. </s>
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              <s>THere was taken a Wier, which being
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              bent almoſt in the form of a Screw,
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              conſtituted ſuch an Inſtrument to contein
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              Coals and leave them every way acceſſi­
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              ble to the Air, as the tenth Figure de­
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              clares; the breadth of this Veſſel was no
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              leſs then that it might with eaſe be con­
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              vey'd into the Receiver: And having filld
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              it to the height of about five Inches with
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              throughly kindled Wood-coals, we let </s>
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