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

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              ple, which event, though it were no other
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              then we expected, was differing from what
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              we deſir'd. </s>
              <s>For we would gladly have ſeen
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              what change would have appear'd in the
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              Water upon the Bottles being ſuddenly
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              unſtopp'd, in a place where the ambient
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              Body was ſo differing from our common
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              Air. </s>
              <s>Wherefore we did again put in the
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              Viol, but leſs ſtrongly cloſ'd then for­
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              merly, though as ſtrongly ſtopt as ſeem'd
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              requiſite on ordinary occaſions: But when
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              the Air was pump'd out of the Receiver,
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              that within the Viol did quickly, as we
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              expected, find or make it ſelf little paſſa­
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              ges to get out at: as we argu'd, from this,
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              That whereas when the Viol was put in
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              the time before, the Water remain'd all
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              the while perfectly free from bubbles; at
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              this time the bottom of the Glaſs ap­
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              pear'd all cover'd with them, and they,
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              upon the regreſs of the excluded Air into
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              the Receiver, did preſently flag and ſhrink
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              up. </s>
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              <s>From theſe tryals it ſeem'd deducible
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              enough, that whil'ſt the Viol continu'd
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              to be well ſtopt, the included Water
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              did, from the Air, ſhut up with it,
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              ſuſtain a preſſure equal to that of the
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              Atmoſphere; ſince till the Air could get </s>
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