The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.
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The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates.
Author
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
Publication
London :: Printed for J. Phillips ... and J. Taylor ...,
1699-1700.
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Physics -- Early works to 1800.
Chemistry -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- 15th-18th centuries.
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"The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq., epitomiz'd by Richard Boulton ... ; illustrated with copper plates." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28936.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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EXPERIMENT XXIX. The Ascension of Liquors in very slender Pipes, in an Exhausted Receiver.
HAving tinged Spirit of Wine with Cocheneel, which bubbled in the Exhausted Receiver, for some time, several slender Pipes being put into it, it rose highest in those whose Bore was narrowest; but when the Air was let in again, the Liquor in both subsided to a Level: But two Pipes of different Bores, being let down into that Liquor a second time, tho' it answer'd the for∣mer Tryals in the Ascent; yet, the Surface in the slenderer Pipe, remain'd something above the other, when the Air was let in again. But what was more Remarkable, was, that tho' the
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Liquor in the Vessel, in this Tryal, emitted no Bubbles, yet that in the Ends of the Tubes did; which were suppos'd to be caus'd by the sides of the Glass, they were contain'd in.
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