Woulff Bottle
notes: label: Description
content: A Woulff bottle is a vessel with two (or sometimes three) outlets. Peter Woulff (1727-1803), a chemist of apparently Irish descent, described the form in 1767. References to Woulff (or Woulfe) bottles have appeared in technical literature since the early nineteenth century.
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content: Ref: Peter Woulff, “Experiments on the Distillation of Acids, Volatile Alkalies, &c.,” <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London</i> (1767), p. 517.
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content: “Woulff's Apparatus” in A. & C. R. Aikin, <i>A Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy</i> (London, 1807), vol. 2, pp. 541-542.
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content: John Joseph Griffin, <i>Chemical Recreations</i> (Glasgow, 1834), pp. 45-46.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Department of Defense, U.S. Military Academy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316435.030
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content: 316435.030
label: accession number
content: 223721
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content: woulff bottle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.2 cm x 8.3 cm; 6 3/4 in x 3 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 11/16 in x 3 7/8 in; 16.98625 cm x 9.8425 cm