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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ternal Air, both the inward part of the
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Cork, and the Liquor it ſelf, do preſent
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ly ſend upwards, and ſcatter abroad a
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fume as thick and white, as if there were
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a quantity of Alablaſter-duſt thrown up
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into the Air: And this ſmoking of the
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Liquor laſts till my unwillingneſs to waſte
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it, invites me ſtop it again; and then the
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aſcenſion of the fumes ſuddenly ceaſes, till
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>This fuming Liquor then I thought
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would much conduce to the diſcovery I
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deſir'd to make, ſince it ſav'd me the need
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of conveying any hot Body with it into
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having ty'd to the Viol a great weight of
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Lead, to keep it from being lifted up by
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the drawing out of the Cork; and having
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ty'd to the ſtopple one end of a ſtring, of
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which the other end was made faſt to the
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Cover of the Pneumatical Glaſs, the Li
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quor was carefully cloſ'd up after the
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wonted manner; then the Air being dili
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gently pump'd out, the Viol was unſtopt
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in the empty'd Receiver: and though
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immediately, npon the drawing out of the
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Cork, there appear'd to be as it were
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