Condensing Tube
notes: label: Description
content: Condensing tubes are used to cool and liquify vapors. The form did not originate with the German chemist, Justus von Liebig, but was often associated with him. Particularly long and narrow tubes were termed "West." The "Made of Pyrex resistant glass / by S.G.A. Co." inscription on this example is that of The Scientific Glass Apparatus Co., a Bloomfield, New Jersey firm that was founded in 1918.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Bloomfield
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315818.007
label: catalog number
content: 315818.007
label: accession number
content: 217523
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Condensing Tube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 621 mm x 63 mm x 25 mm; 24 7/16 in x 2 1/2 in x in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 25 in x 6 1/2 in; 2.54 cm x 63.5 cm x 16.51 cm