Andrea Sella – Page 9
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Classic Kit: Gadolins's condenser
Chemistry is often compared to cookery, and the pages of a typical cookbook read like the pages of the wonderful compendia Organic- and Inorganic Syntheses
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Classic Kit: Liebig's Kaliapparat
Justus von Liebig (1803–1873) was a German chemist, co-discoverer of isomerism, father of agricultural chemistry and revolutionised chemical analysis
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Classic Kit: Thiele tube
Johannes Thiele - the Prussian inventor of a temperature-stable convection heating tube for melting point analysis
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Classic Kit: Mary's bath
Approximately 2nd century AD. One of the earliest alchemists, inventor of the 'bain marie', the kerotakis apparatus and the tribikos still
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Classic Kit: Ostwald's viscometer
One man who took little on trust was Wilhelm Ostwald. Born in Riga, Latvia, he studied chemistry at the University of Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia).
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Classic Kit: Gaede's diffusion pump
A new generation of faster, stronger and more reliable vacuum pumps
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Classic Kit: Hirsch's funnel
Separating crystals is a cinch using a Hirsch funnel, but it was not always thus
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Classic Kit: Abderhalden's drying pistol
Humans have been preoccupied with purity for thousands of years
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Classic Kit: 'Perkin's' triangle
The vacuum distillation apparatus invented by Leonard Temple Thorne, but with Perkin's name on it
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Classic Kit: Signer's Osmometer
Signer's elegant apparatus for measuring molecular weights in solution
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Classic Kit: Abbes refractometer
The other day I found myself in the supermarket staring at a frozen cliff of buttery spreads
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Classic Kit: Claisen's flask
In the name of effective multi-tasking, modern technology tries to combine as many functions into one small gadget as possible
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Classic Kit: Raschig's rings
Few who have listened to the music of Richard Wagner can remain indifferent to it.
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Classic Kit: Dewar's flask
A thing of rare beauty which every chemist should have on their mantelpiece
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Classic Kit: Erlenmeyer flask
George Bernard Shaw once described Britain and America as being 'two countries divided by a common language
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Classic Kit: Drechsel's bottle
Western travellers to the East fuelled a fashion for Orientalism which reached its height in the 19th century
