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Plate 11 (Frontispiece): Gasometers; precipitating jars; air holders

  • 1824

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Depicts assorted gasometers (common and mercurial), as well as glass globes and receivers, precipitating jars, and air and gas funnels, holders, and bladders.

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Accum, Friedrich Christian. “Plate 11 (Frontispiece): Gasometers; Precipitating Jars; Air Holders.” In An Explanatory Dictionary of the Apparatus and Instruments Employed in the Various Operations of Philosophical and Experimental Chemistry. London, England: Thomas Shotter Boys, 1824. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/bv73c0445.

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