Fresenius Desiccator
name: label: maker
content: Coors Porcelain
label: maker
content: Coors Porcelain Company
notes: label: Description
content: This type of glass desiccator is associated with the German chemist, Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818-1897). An example of “Fresenius’s Desiccator for drying alkaloids by simply exposing them in a close vessel over sulphuric acid” was shown to a local English chemical association in 1872. The porcelain cups of this example are marked "Coors U.S.A. 2."
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Heil Instrument Co., <i>Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List of Chemical Apparatus</i> (St. Louis, 1903), p. 215.
label: Description
content: “Leeds Chemists Association,” <i>The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions</i> (Dec. 1875): 512.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of George Washington University Department of Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.327261
label: catalog number
content: 327261
label: accession number
content: 266153
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Desiccator, Fresenius
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 25.5 cm x 20 cm; 10 1/16 in x 7 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 8 in x 8 in; 24.765 cm x 20.32 cm x 20.32 cm