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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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    ere eee Last of Instruments and Utensils, requisite for carrying on a general Course of Chemical Experiments. An universal furnace, with sand-bath, muffle and various kinds of crucibles and fire tongs. One or two table lamp furnaces. One flat chemical lamp, and one spirit lamp. One oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, and a common blow-pipe, with lamp, platina jets, spoon, forceps, and platina foil. Chemical thermometers in sorts and sizes. One or two pneumatic troughs, with an assortment of bell-glasses, cylindrical receivers, and deflagerating jars in sizes, plain and graduated. One or two detonating tubes. Bell-glasses, mounted with stop-cocks, bladders, &c. An assortment of glass retorts with long necks for pro- curing gases. One or two eudiometers, and small graduated glass tubes. A series of graduated cylindrical jars, divided into cubic inches and decimal parts. Various sized gas bottles, plain and tubulated, Two cast iron retorts with conducting tubes. Three or four large bladders, mounted with stop-cocks. One or two air-holders. An apparatus for impregnating fluids with gases. A pneumatic mercurial trough, and a sufficient quantity of mercury. One or two nests of cylindrical air-jars, adapted for the mercurial trough, plain and graduated. A gazometer. An assortment of glass and earthenware retorts, plain and tubulated, with corresponding glass receivers, also tubulated, plain, and quilled.