Filtering Flask
notes: label: Description
content: This type of flask with a horizontal tube attached to the neck was known as a filter flask, a filtering flask, or a suction flask. The form was in use by the 1890s, for filtering under reduced pressure. It was sometimes associated with Robert Bunsen, professor of chemistry at the University of Heidelberg.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ludwig Gatterman, The Practical Methods of Organic Chemistry (New York, 1898), pp. 49-50.
label: Description
content: Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., Apparatus and Supplies for Chemical and Biological Laboratories (Rochester, 1904), p. 207.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Derek J. Price
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315225.4
label: catalog number
content: 315225.4
label: accession number
content: 218474
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Flask
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 6 in; 7.62 cm x 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/8 in x 3 3/4 in x 3 in; 15.5575 cm x 9.525 cm x 7.62 cm