Mortar
notes: label: Description
content: Chemists used agate mortars for pulverizing siliceous and other hard minerals, and for blowpipe analysis. This example--octagonal on the outside, hemispherical on the inside—came from the Draper family and may date from the mid-nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Joseph Griffin, <i>Chemical Recreations</i> (Glasgow, 1834), p. 7.
label: Description
content: E. B. Benjamin, <i>American Hand-Book of Chemical and Physical Apparatus</i> (New York, [1876]), p. 134.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John William Christopher Draper and James Christopher Draper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.334005.099
label: catalog number
content: 334005.099
label: accession number
content: 304826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mortar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 mm x 40 mm; 9/16 in x 1 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 1.5875 cm x 3.81 cm x 3.81 cm