Florence Flask
notes: label: Description
content: The Florence flask, with round body and long neck, was known to English chemists by the seventeenth century, if not before. The term derived from the form used to transport Italian wine and olive oil. According to an account from 1834, "They are to be had of oilmen, who sell the empty flasks, after having disposed of the Florence oil they contained. Such flasks are extremely cheap." This glass example probably dates from the mid-nineteenth century.
label: Description
content: Ref: John Joseph Griffin, Chemical Recreations (Glasgow, 1834), p. 10.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.333999.024
label: catalog number
content: 333999.024
label: accession number
content: 304826
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Florence Flask
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.5 cm x 9 cm; 6 1/2 in x 3 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 3 in; 14.605 cm x 7.62 cm