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Shelfmark: 20003-0001 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: H.: 57; Diam.: 14
 
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Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: gasometer
Abstract: Mercury gasometer. This special type of gasometer served to collect gases using mercury, a method that Lavoisier had adopted in 1774 and thanks to which he was able to identify, in that very same year, the chemical properties of oxygen.
 
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name: -
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: author
name: Paris
date/range: 1774
date of: construction
epoch: 18 (2°)
 
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Discipline Topic Argument

Chemistry Apparatus Gasometer

 
Digital version:  2  Image/s
20003-0001 mckie_055

 

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