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Van't Hoff's molecular models, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.041

Scope and Contents

Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Netherlands. Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff's cardboard models of malic, succinic, and tartaric acids. With these models he demonstrated the asymmetry that exists around a tetrahedral center in certain molecules.

Dates

  • Creation: 2000

Repository Details

Part of the Science History Institute Archives Repository

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