Fluorine Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: William Taylor Miller (1911-1998) was an organic chemist who studied the addition of halogens to hydrocarbons. This item is part of an apparatus for storing and dispensing elemental fluorine that was constructed after Dr. Miller's return to Cornell University at the end of World War II. The apparatus was used regularly with only routine maintenance for about twenty years, and periodically afterwards.
label: Description
content: Ref: “William Taylor Miller, 87, Organic Chemist,” New York Times (Nov. 27, 1998), p. B19.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. William T. Miller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0268.07.03
label: accession number
content: 1993.0268
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0268.07.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus, Part Of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 46 in x 11 in x 2 3/4 in; 116.84 cm x 27.94 cm x 6.985 cm