Pycnometer, 25 ml
name: label: maker
content: Kimble Glass Company
notes: label: Description
content: A pycnometer (sometimes termed a Geissler specific gravity bottle) is a glass flask provided with an accurate and delicate thermometer, that determines the density of a liquid and how it varies with temperature. The form was devised in 1859 by the German glassworker, Heinrich Geissler (1814-1879) and the Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834–1907). The inscription on this example reads "25 ML / 20° C / K / USA / 1560."
label: Description
content: The “Jenaer Normalglass Germany” inscription on the thermometer refers to the Jenaer Glaswerk Schott and Genossen, established in 1884.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN82816X02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pycnometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (overall material)