Calcium Chloride Tube
notes: label: Description
content: Before analyzing organic compounds, chemists purified the oxygen or air they would use by passing it through a tube containing an absorbing material of some sort. Several forms were devised for that purpose. This example is of the form devised by S. Schmitz in the 1880s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Heil, Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List of Chemical Apparatus (St. Louis, 1903), p. 437.
label: Description
content: Ref: S. Schmitz, “Modification of the Calcium Chloride Drying Tube use in Elementary Analysis,” Zeit. Anal. Chem. 23 (1884?): 688.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania Chemistry Lab
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316065.116
label: accession number
content: 217523
label: catalog number
content: 316065.116
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Calcium Chloride Tube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.2 cm x 12.8 cm x 3.9 cm; 4 in x 5 1/16 in x 1 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 5 in x 1 1/2 in; 11.1125 cm x 12.7 cm x 3.81 cm