Thionin
notes: label: Description
content: Powdered dye in a brown glass bottle with a black plastic screw cap, and a paper label that reads in part “No. T-3387 / THIONIN / (C.I. 52000; Lauth's Violet) / Acetate salt / CAUTION: Avoid contact and inhalation. / SIGMA / CHEMICAL COMPANY / . . .” This was first synthesized by the French chemist, Charles Lauth (1836-1913), in the 1860s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ch. Lauth, “On the New Aniline Dye, ‘Violet de Paris.’, The Laboratory (1867): 138-139.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth M. Heller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0325.291
label: accession number
content: 1999.0325
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0325.291
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aniline Dye
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.8 cm x 3.8 cm; 2 11/16 in x 1 1/2 in