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Plate 5: Hygrometer; gasometers; mephitic water apparatus

  • 1824

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Depicts a hygrometer, gasometers, blowpipe forceps, magnifier, a mephitic water apparatus in figure 9, "ill calculated for the purpose of impregnating water with carbonic acid," and an air furnace.

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Accum, Friedrich Christian. “Plate 5: Hygrometer; Gasometers; Mephitic Water Apparatus.” 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/pz50gw084.

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