All articles by Andrea Sella – Page 11
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OpinionLiebig's Kaliapparat
Justus von Liebig (1803–1873) was a German chemist, co-discoverer of isomerism, father of agricultural chemistry and revolutionised chemical analysis
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OpinionThiele tube
Johannes Thiele - the Prussian inventor of a temperature-stable convection heating tube for melting point analysis
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OpinionMary's bath
Approximately 2nd century AD. One of the earliest alchemists, inventor of the 'bain marie', the kerotakis apparatus and the tribikos still
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OpinionOstwald's viscometer
One man who took little on trust was Wilhelm Ostwald. Born in Riga, Latvia, he studied chemistry at the University of Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia).
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OpinionHirsch's funnel
Separating crystals is a cinch using a Hirsch funnel, but it was not always thus
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Opinion'Perkin's' triangle
The vacuum distillation apparatus invented by Leonard Temple Thorne, but with Perkin's name on it
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OpinionAbbes refractometer
The other day I found myself in the supermarket staring at a frozen cliff of buttery spreads
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OpinionClaisen's flask
In the name of effective multi-tasking, modern technology tries to combine as many functions into one small gadget as possible
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OpinionRaschig's rings
Few who have listened to the music of Richard Wagner can remain indifferent to it.