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234 Analyfis of the Air. 



ceiver, and abforbed 1 6 cubick inches of air 

 viz. r part of the whole j an allowance 

 being made in this eftimatc, for the bulk 

 of the Cat's body. A candle in the fame 

 veflcl continued burning but one minute, 

 and abforbed 54 cubick inches, A part of 

 the whole air. 



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And as in the cafe of burning Brimftone 

 and Candles, more air was found to be ab- 

 forbed in large veflels, than in fmall ones ; 



and vice verfa, more Air in proportion to 

 the capacity of the vefiel was abforbed 

 in fmall, than in large velfels 5 fo the fame 

 holds true here too in the cafe of ani- 

 mals. 



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Experiment CVIII. 



The following Experiment will mew, 

 that the elasticity of the Air is greatly de- 

 ftroyed by the refpiration of human lungs-, 

 viz. 



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I made a bladder very fupple by wetting 

 of it, and then cut off fo much of the neck, 

 as would make a hole wide enough for the 

 biggeft end of a large foffet to enter, to which 

 the bladder was bound faft. The bladder 

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