Bűchner Funnel
name: label: maker
content: Coors Porcelain Company
notes: label: Description
content: Ernst Bűchner was a German chemist who, in 1888, described a modest improvement of the funnel suitable for the vacuum filtration method recently patented by the industrial chemist, R. Hirsch. This large Bűchner funnel is made of white porcelain. The blue inscription reads “COORS / U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Arthur H. Thomas, Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents (Philadelphia, 1921), p. 302.\
label: Description
content: William B. Jensen, “The Hirsch and Bűchner Filtration Funnels,” Journal of Chemical Education 83 (2006).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0147.009
label: accession number
content: 2004.0147
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0147.009
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bűchner Funnel
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: porcelain (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45.7 cm x 34.3 cm; 18 in x 13 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 in x 12 1/2 in; 45.72 cm x 31.75 cm