Nitrometer
name: label: developer
content: Lunge, Georg
notes: label: Description
content: A nitrometer determines the amount of nitrogen in a substance. Walter Crum, a practical chemist in Glasgow, published an account of the nitrogen reaction in 1847. George Lunge, a German chemist working in Zurich, described a practical nitrometer in 1878.
label: Description
content: Ref: Walter Crum, “On a Method for the Analysis of Bodies containing Nitric Acid, and its application to Explosive Cotton,” Philosophical Magazine 30 (1847): 426-431.
label: Description
content: W. C. Cope and J. Barab, “Application of the Nitrometer for the Determination of Constitution and Estimation of Nitrogen in a Class of Nitrocompounds (Nitroamines),” Journal of the American Chemical Society 38 (1916): 2552-2558.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Barbara A. Keppel
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0311.268
label: accession number
content: 1985.0311
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0311.268
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Nitrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 52.7 cm; 20 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 3/4 in x 4 in x 3/4 in; 52.705 cm x 10.16 cm x 1.905 cm