Hengar Granules
name: label: maker
content: Hengar Company
notes: label: Description
content: Chemists had long known that they could generate hydrogen sulfide by heating a mixture of paraffin and sulfur. Building on this idea, the Hengar company in Philadelphia began selling a suitable substance marketed as AITCH-TU-ESS in 1925. By the 1960s, this firm had become the Hengar Division of Henry Troemner, Inc.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0147.005
label: accession number
content: 2004.0147
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0147.005
objectType: label: Object Name
content: boiling chips
label: Object Name
content: Hengar Granules
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.7 cm x 6.35 cm; 5 in x 2 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 3 in; 12.7 cm x 7.62 cm