Moissan's Fluorine Apparatus (Replica)
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content: Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan (1852-1907) was a French chemist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine. This is a replica of the apparatus used for that work.
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content: Ref: F. Moissan, “Action d’un courant électrique sur l’acide fluorhydrique anhydre,” <i>Comptes Rendus de l’Academie des Sciences</i> 102 (1886): 1543-1544.
label: Description
content: F. Moissan, “Sur la decomposition de l’acide fluorhydrique par un courant électrique,” <i>Comptes Rendus de l’Academie des Sciences</i> 103 (1886): 102.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.323782
label: catalog number
content: 323782
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content: 252891
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Moissan's Fluorine Apparatus (Replica)
label: Object Name
content: Moissan's Fluorine Apparatus (replica)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: base: 3 3/4 in x 2 in; 9.525 cm x 5.08 cm
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content: stopper: 1 1/4 in x 1 in; 3.175 cm x 2.54 cm
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content: perforated stopper: 7/8 in x 13/16 in; 2.2225 cm x 2.06375 cm
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content: tube: 20 1/4 in x 5/8 in; 51.435 cm x 1.5875 cm
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content: base: 4 1/2 in x 2 in; 11.43 cm x 5.08 cm
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content: top: 2 in x 3 1/4 in; 5.08 cm x 8.255 cm