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Excerpt from The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq., Vol. 2: Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural-History, Chymistry, and Medicine
'8 7. The propagation of founds in the 108. Gun-powder tho' fired itfelf exhau?ed receiver. Ih. Fires not the contiguous grains in va 88. A gla/e-drop broke in the exhau?ed cuo. 52 3 receiver. 5 10 109. Two difi'erent trials, with dif'e 89. Light produced in the exhau?ed rent events, to kindle gun-powder in receiver. Ib. Vacuo. 524 90. A kind of halo, and colours, produ 1 10. Experiments _/hewing the relation ccd in the exhau/ied receiver. 5 1 1 betwixt air and the ?amma vitalis 91. Heat produced by attrition in the ib. Exhaufied receiver. Ib. 1 1 1 The duration of a bird's life com 92. Quickvlzme ?aked in the exhau/led par'd with the duration of a burning receiver. 512 coal and candle in vacuo. 525 193. An attempt 'to meajure the force of 1 1 2. Glow-worms and their luminous the jpring of included air. 513 matter in vacuo. 526 94. An eafy way of making a [mall I 13. Animals weigh'd before death and quantity of air raife a great weight. 527.
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