Erlenmeyer Flask
notes: label: Description
content: The Erlenmeyer flask is a glass boiling flask designed by and named for Emil Erlenmeyer (1825–1909), a German organic chemist. Erlenmeyer first displayed the new flask at a pharmaceutical conference in Heidelberg in 1857 and arranged for its commercial production and sale by local glassware manufacturers.
label: Description
content: Ref: Emil Erlenmeyer, "Zur chemischen und pharmazeutischen Technik," Zeitschrift für Chemie und Pharmacie, vol. 3 (January 1860), 21-22.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Barbara A. Keppel
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0311.069
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0311.69
label: accession number
content: 1985.0311
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Flask, Erlenmeyer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 108 mm x 64 mm; 4 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in; 12.065 cm x 6.985 cm