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Excerpt from The Franklin Journal, and American Mechanics' Magazine, Vol. 4: Devoted to the Useful Arts, Internal Improvements, and General Science
He next applied his apparatus to the compression of aeriform ?uids. For this purpose a gasometer was filled half full of water. It was then inverte and placed in a receiving tube, and it was found, under a pressure of 500 atmospheres, that the whole of the air was taken up by the water, but none (fit was given out when the pressure was re moved.
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