Mucic acid
notes: label: Description
content: This is a glass vial of mucic acid with a cork-stopped top. The mucic acid is in the form of a white powder. It was donated to the museum in 1920 by the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, as a part of a collection of objects that illustrate the different ways wood can be utilized in commercial production. Mucic acid is used as a substitute for tartaric acid in baking powder and the manufacture of dyes. It is an aldaric acid produced by the nitric acid oxidation of galactose or compounds containing galactose. As gum often contains galactose and gum can be found in many species of wood, mucic acid can be formed through the working of such wood.
label: Description
content: The New York State College of Forestry was founded in 1898 at Cornell University and was the first professional school of forestry in North America. In 1911, it was reestablished at Syracuse University. Today, the college is a part of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Forestry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.20FP02.08
label: catalog number
content: 20FP02.08
label: catalog number
content: W904
label: accession number
content: 064766
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chemical Sample
label: Object Name
content: mucic acid
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (vial material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 1 in x 1 in; 7.62 cm x 2.54 cm x 2.54 cm