Potassium Chloride Prism
notes: label: Description
content: John Strong (1905-1992) grew this large potassium chloride (KCl) prism while he was a graduate student in physics at the University of Michigan, ca. 1929, and used it for spectroscopic observations. He acknowledged the help of Paul Weyrich, the instrument maker of the physics department.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Strong, “Investigation in the Spectral Region between 20 and 40μ,” <i>Physical Review</i> 37 (1931): 1565-1572.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Ann Arbor
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.323823
label: catalog number
content: 323823
label: accession number
content: 256844
objectType: label: Object Name
content: potassium chloride prism
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: potassium chloride (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 13.335 cm x 9.525 cm