From object
Shelfmark:	20003-0001 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France)	Suggestions & Corrections
Type:	instrument
Dimension:	H.: 57; Diam.: 14

Component's data
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.

Related components	(2)

bibliography
	journal Annales de Chimie et de Physique
		bibliographic reference	Les instruments de Lavoisier. Relation d'une visite à la Canière (Puy-de-Dome) où se trouvent réunis...
description of
	painting
		portrait	Portrait of Lavoisier and his wife (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze)...

2 record

Page

1

Attributes
Person	City	Cronology	Position
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°)

Subject/s
	Discipline	Topic		Argument
	Chemistry		Apparatus	Gasometer

Digital version:  2  Image/s

 

Page

1