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Blowpipe kit, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.020

Scope and Contents

Whipple Museum, Cambridge, England. Blowpipe kit. Blowpipe analysis is used to quickly identify materials, based on their behavior in intense heat, and the glasses that they form. The technique is rarely used at present, except by amateur field mineralogists.

Dates

  • Creation: 2000

Repository Details

Part of the Science History Institute Archives Repository

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