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An explanatory dictionary of the apparatus and instruments employed in the various operations of philosophical and experimental chemistry. With seventeen quarto copper-plates / By a practical chemist.

  • Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838.
Date:
1824
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An explanatory dictionary of the apparatus and instruments employed in the various operations of philosophical and experimental chemistry. With seventeen quarto copper-plates / By a practical chemist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the portable furnaces, or a forge-hearth. Indeed, if it can be done, the opening of the chimney should extend from one wall to another; and it should be so high, that a person may easily stand under it. The rest of the space of the chimney ought to be fitted up with one or more stands of different heights, on which small portable furnaces and other apparatus may occasionally be placed. Under the chimney, at a convenient height, should be a row of iron hooks, driven into the back and sides of the wall, upon which are to be hung hand-bellows, shovels, crucible and fire tongs, pokers, ladles, ingots, and other utensils for managing the vessels to be used with the furnaces, and for disposing the fire. A book-case with glazed doors, to hold the nicer apparatus, such as balances, &c. and a few choice books, will likewise be highly convenient. Ef more than one room can be adapted for the purposes of a laboratory, it will be more advantageous to have one apartment on the ground floor and another in the upper story of the house. The first should be appropriated for the furnaces, and the performance of those processes which occasion smoke or corrosive vapours; for sifting, pounding, evaporating and other processes which make dust or fumes; and in the upper room the nicer operations, and‘ those which require the mere heat of a lamp, should be performed. This arrangement being made, the following articles should be procured :—