Methylblau
notes: label: Description
content: Glass vial with plastic lid, and paper label that reads in part “CHROMA-GESELLSCHAFT (/) SCHMID & CO. (/) Methylblau (/) Methyl blue (/) STUTTGART-UNTERLURKHEIM (/) CHROMA (/) 11040.” Heinrich Caro, BASF's research director, prepared methyl blue for use as a cotton dye in 1878. Microbiologist Robert Koch established it as a medical stain.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth M. Heller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0325.088
label: accession number
content: 1999.0325
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0325.088
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aniline Dye
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.7 cm x 2.5 cm; 3 1/16 in x in