Drying Tube
name: label: maker
content: Peligot, Eugene
label: maker
content: Wöhler, Friedrich
notes: label: Description
content: This type of glass drying tube was associated with Eugène Melchior Peligot (1811-1890), an industrial chemist and professor in Paris. In use, it would be filled with a dessicant such as calcium chloride.
label: Description
content: Ref: Arthur H. Thomas, Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents (Philadelphia, 1914), p. 100.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania Chemistry Lab
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316062
label: catalog number
content: 316062
label: accession number
content: 217523
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Nitrogen Absorption Apparatus
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: each leg: 9 in; x 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 7 in x 1 7/8 in; 24.13 cm x 17.78 cm x 4.7625 cm