Soxhlet Extraction Tube
notes: label: Description
content: Frans Ritter von Soxhlet (1848-1926), a German agricultural chemist, described this this type of tube for extracting a lipid from a solid material in 1879.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Heil Chemical Co., Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Chemical Apparatus (St. Louis, 1903), pp. 40-41.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316231.198
label: catalog number
content: 316231.198
label: accession number
content: 217523
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Soxhlet Extraction Tube
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 36.2 cm x 8.9 cm x 5.4 cm; 14 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 2 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 3/8 in x 3 1/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 36.5125 cm x 7.9375 cm x 5.3975 cm