Fresenius Desiccator
notes: label: Description
content: Glass desiccator of the sort associated with the German chemist, Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818-1897). An example of “Fresenius’s Desiccator for drying alkaloids by simply exposing them in a close vessel over sulphuric acid” was shown to a local English chemical association in 1875.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Heil Instrument Co., <i>Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List of Chemical Apparatus</i> (St. Louis, 1903), p. 215.
label: Description
content: “Leeds Chemists Association,” <i>The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions</i> (Dec. 1875): 512.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Stevens Institute of Technology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316884
label: catalog number
content: 316884
label: accession number
content: 222983
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Desiccator, Fresnius
label: Object Name
content: Fresenius Desiccator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 5 3/4 in; 20.32 cm x 14.605 cm
label: Measurements
content: lid: 4 in; 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 5 7/8 in; 20.32 cm x 14.9225 cm