All Classic kit articles – Page 10
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Bridgman's seal
The most reductive of literary critics are wont to say that there are only seven kinds of stories
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OpinionGooch's crucible
Many years ago, a friend of mine teased me about how I, as a chemist, would probably die young of some dread occupational disease
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OpinionHaldane's blood gas analyser
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who steered Ivory Coast to independence in 1959, was known as the Sage of Africa
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OpinionMorton flask
Baldassarre Castiglione wrote that the perfect gentleman should 'affect in all things sprezzatura' - artful effortlessness
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OpinionDean-Stark apparatus
If there is any single substance that unites pretty much all chemists, it has to be water
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OpinionGadolins's condenser
Chemistry is often compared to cookery, and the pages of a typical cookbook read like the pages of the wonderful compendia Organic- and Inorganic Syntheses
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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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