Nitrometer
notes: label: Description
content: A nitrometer determines the amount of nitrogen in a substance. Walter Crum, a practical chemist in Glasgow, published an account of the nitrogen reaction in 1847. George Lunge, a German chemist working in Zurich, described a practical nitrometer in 1878. An inscription on this example reads "CCM".
label: Description
content: Ref: Walter Crum, “On a Method for the Analysis of Bodies containing Nitric Acid, and its application to Explosive Cotton,” Philosophical Magazine 30 (1847): 426-431.
label: Description
content: W. C. Cope and J. Barab, “Application of the Nitrometer for the Determination of Constitution and Estimation of Nitrogen in a Class of Nitrocompounds (Nitroamines),” Journal of the American Chemical Society 38 (1916): 2552-2558.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania Chemistry Lab
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.315823.014
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content: 315823.014
label: accession number
content: 217523
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Nitrometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 610 mm x 102 mm x 20 mm; 24 in x 4 in x 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 4 1/4 in x 1 7/8 in; 60.96 cm x 10.795 cm x 4.7625 cm