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Shelfmark: 19941-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: H.: 44; W.: 5,5; L.: 16; Mass: 580 g.
 
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Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: apparatus
Abstract: Calorimeter. This apparatus which seems an anticipation of the Favre-Silbermann calorimeter is unknown in Lavoisier's published writings. A cubical wooden box, on a wooden base, evidently formerly covered with tin foil, inside and out, is open at the top. From one face of box rises a wooden strip, graduated from 50 to 63, each division being divided into ten parts. Against this strip is fixed a capillary tube, terminating at the top in a sperical bulb with a neck fitted with a rougly cut wooden stopper. The box contains a glass bulb which has been broken from the lower end of the capillary tube
 
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name: -
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: Paris
date/range: 1780
date of: construction
epoch: 18 (2°)
 
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Chemistry Apparatus Calorimeter

 
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