Hopkins Condenser
notes: label: Description
content: This type of distillation tube was described in 1896 by Cyril George Hopkins (1866-1919), a chemist who, for many years, was affiliated with the Agricultural Research Station at the University of Illinois. It is often termed a Hopkins condenser.
label: Description
content: Ref: Cyril G. Hopkins, “A New Safety Distillation Tube for Rapid Work in Nitrogen Determinations,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 18 (1896): 227-228.
label: Description
content: Arthur H. Thomas, Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents (Philadelphia, 1921), p. 177.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University Pennsylvania Chemistry Lab
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316081
label: accession number
content: 217523
label: catalog number
content: 316081
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Condenser
label: Object Name
content: Distillation Tube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 6 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 35.56 cm x 15.24 cm x 3.81 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/4 in x 5 3/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 36.195 cm x 14.605 cm x 4.1275 cm