Nile Blue A
notes: label: Description
content: Glass vial with plastic cap, and paper label that reads in part “CHROMA-GESELLSCHAFT (/) SCHMID & CO. (/) Nile Blue A (/) Certified for use in: Fat staining (/) Total Dye Content: 79% (/) STUTTGART-UNTERLURKHEIM (/) CHROMA (/) 11230 (/) C.I. No. 51180.” Theodor Reissig, a German chemist who lived for a while at Manchester, developed Nile Blue in 1888.
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: 1999.0325.094
label: accession number
content: 1999.0325
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0325.094
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