Analyfts cf the Air. 231 
The Candle cannot be lighted again in 
this infeaed air by a burning glafs : But if 
I firft lighted it, and then put it into the 
fame infefted air, tho' it was extinguifhed 
in t part of the time, that it wouid burn in 
the fame veffel, full of frdh air $ yet it 
would deftroy the elafticity of near as much 
air in that Ihort time, as it did in five times 
that fpace of time in frefli air 5 this I rc-^ 
peated feveral times, and found the fame 
event: Hence a grofs air which is loaded 
with vapours, is more apt in equal times to 
lofe its elafticity in greater quantities, than 
a clear air. 
I obferve that where the veflels are equal, 
and the fize of the Candles unequal, the c- 
lafticity of more air will be deftroyed by 
the large than by the fmall Candle : And 
where Candles are equal, there moft air in 
proportion to the bulk of the veffel will 
be abforbed in the fmalleft veffel: Tho* 
with equal Candles there is always moft: 
^laftick air deftroyed iri the largeft veffel, 
where the Candle burns longeft. 
I found aUb in fermenting liquors, that 
cateris paribus y more air was either gene- 
rated or ^bforbed in large, than in fmall 
Q 4 yeffels 
