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Florentine separatory flask, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.051
Scope and Contents

Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Florentine separatory flask was used to separate liquids of different densities before the advent of separatory funnels. The more dense liquid stays at the bottom and can be poured off the spout.

Dates: 2000

Alembic, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.052
Scope and Contents

Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. An alembic was used for distillation until the end of the 19th century. Vapors of the liquid heated in the flask at the bottom condensed on the inside of the cooler head and were drawn off at the spout.

Dates: 2000

Kekulé's analytical balance, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.053
Scope and Contents

Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. August Kekulé von Stradonitz's analytical balance, brought with him from Germany.

Dates: 2000

Kekulé's balance, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.054
Scope and Contents

Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. August Kekulé von Stradonitz's analytical balance, made for him in Belgium. (University of Ghent was established in 1817).

Dates: 2000

Curie-type balance, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.055
Scope and Contents

Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Balance designed by Pierre Curie, who invented the damper. This is an aperiodic precision balance. Society Central de Produits Chemies.

Dates: 2000

Kekulé's blackboard, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.056
Scope and Contents

Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. August Kekulé von Stradonitz's blackboard.

Dates: 2000

Manually operated mercury vacuum pump, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.057
Scope and Contents Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Caption reads: "Kwikpump volgens [according to] D.H. Geissler, c. 1900 Franz Moeller, Dr. G's Nachfolger Bonn a/Rh." Crank raises and lowers the outside reservoir. Proper opening and closing of the valves produces a vacuum within the apparatus, which becomes more rarefied with each cycle. In 1857 Heinrich Geissler invented the tubes that bear his name. Each contained a nearvacuum and was used to demonstrate and investigate...
Dates: 2000

Bakelite buret, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.058
Scope and Contents

Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Transparent, dark brown Bakelite buret. First pieces handmade by Leo Baekeland. This buret was probably among a group that was sent to the American Chemical Society. [Leo Baekeland's father-in-law, Schwartz, was Kekule's successor at Ghent.]

Dates: 2000

Duboscq colorimeter, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.059
Scope and Contents Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent Belgium. Invented in 1870, Duboscq colorimeters were sold through the mid-1900s. One sample container holds solution of known concentration (Ck); the other holds solution of the same solute of unknown concentration (Cu). The pathlength for the known solution (Lk) is fixed; that for the unknown solution (Lu) is adjusted until the intensity of the (colored) light appears the same when viewed through the eyepiece at the top. The product...
Dates: 2000

Wooden test tube holders, 2000

 Item — Box: 1, Object: 2006.501.060
Scope and Contents

Museum of the History of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. Wooden test tube holders.

Dates: 2000