All Classic kit articles – Page 8

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Geiger's tube

2013-03-25T00:00:00Z

The ticking counter of individual atomic events

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Castner's electrode

2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bringing the spark of life to the chemical industry

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Coolidge’s x-ray tube

2013-01-24T00:00:00Z

A light to reveal the atomic order of the world

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Wedgwood’s pyrometer

2012-12-19T00:00:00Z

Taming the fiery heat of kiln and furnace

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Karl Fischer’s titrator

2012-12-03T00:00:00Z

Putting the crunch into those moreish goodies

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Penning’s vacuum gauge

2012-10-31T00:00:00Z

Born not from the spark of an idea but the afterglow

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Dufton's spiral column

2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The winding path to chemical virtue

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Lüer's syringe

2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

An innovation that launched a family empire

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Chattaway's spatula

2012-07-23T00:00:00Z

Trusty companion of intrepid chemical explorers

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Luggin's capillary

2012-07-01T00:00:00Z

Do you cringe when a relationship is described as involving ‘chemistry’?

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Turing’s machine

2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

Alan Turing, perhaps not often remembered as a chemist, provided the starting point for computational chemistry

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Scheibel's column

2012-04-30T00:00:00Z

Liquid-liquid extraction attracts a little poetic licence

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Pirani's gauge

2012-03-31T00:00:00Z

A ‘lightbulb moment’ in measuring vacuum pressure

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Zsigmondy's ultramicroscope

2012-02-23T13:16:00Z

Conquering vapour density and atomic weight

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Victor Meyer's apparatus

2012-01-27T10:04:00Z

Conquering vapour density and atomic weight

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Hickman's still

2011-12-22T10:14:00Z

Purifying the most involatile of liquids

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Wheatstone's Bridge

2011-11-28T15:09:00Z

Of all the paradigms of science, the idea of equilibrium is one of the most fundamental

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Weissenberg's Camera

2011-10-26T15:15:00Z

In so many societies, bread is the stuff of life the cornerstone of existence

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Van de Graaff generator

2011-09-29T13:41:00Z

Transport systems can be great unifiers and bringers of development

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McLeod's Vacuum Guage

2011-08-26T14:02:00Z

The simmering tensions between science and religion