Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 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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              the Viol be again unſtop'd. </s>
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              <s>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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              the Receiver, and would not darken it
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              with fumes before the time. </s>
              <s>Wherefore
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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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              thrown up ſome white fumes, which </s>
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