If the millennium of the working class is to depend on the discovery of a Noman's land of infinite Expansibility, it must be indefinitely postponed.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
If I take anything that confines the air properly, as this membrane, which also is able to contract and expand so as to give us a measure of the elasticity of the air, and confine in this bladder a certain portion of air; and then, if we take the atmosphere off from the outside of it, just as in these cases we put the pressure on-if we take the pressure off, you will see how it will then go on expanding and expanding, larger and larger, until it will fill the whole of this bell-jar, shewing you that wonderful property of the air, its elasticity, its compressibility, and Expansibility, to an exceedingly large extent, and which is very essential for the purposes and services it performs in the economy of creation.
"The Chemical History Of A Candle"
Michael Faraday
What effect does heat have upon the Expansibility of air?
"Rollo's Philosophy. [Air]"
Jacob Abbott