Gooch Crucible
notes: label: Description
content: The Gooch crucible (or filter) is a laboratory vessel with a perforated base suitable for collecting a precipitate for gravimetric analysis. This small example, designed for microanalysis, is made of Berlin porcelain; the blue inscription reads “GERMANY.”
label: Description
content: The form was introduced in 1877 by Frank Austin Gooch (1852-1929), a chemist who had recently earned a Harvard PhD, and who would later serve as Professor at Yale (1885-1918).
label: Description
content: Ref: F. A. Gooch, “On a New Method for the Separation and Subsequent Treatment of Precipitates in Chemical Analysis,” Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 13 (1877-1878): 342-347.
label: Description
content: Henry Heil Chemical Co., Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List of Chemical Apparatus (St. Louis, 1903), p. 208.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. F. Liebman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0748.29
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0748.29
label: accession number
content: 1985.0748
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gooch Crucible
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 32 mm x 32 mm; 1 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 3.4925 cm x 3.175 cm