Bűchner Funnel
Bűchner Funnel
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- Description
- Ernst Bűchner was a German chemist who, in 1888, described a modest improvement of the funnel suitable for the vacuum filtration method recently patented by the industrial chemist, R. Hirsch. This large Bűchner funnel is made of white porcelain. The blue inscription reads “COORS / U.S.A.”
- Ref: Arthur H. Thomas, Laboratory Apparatus and Reagents (Philadelphia, 1921), p. 302.\
- William B. Jensen, “The Hirsch and Bűchner Filtration Funnels,” Journal of Chemical Education 83 (2006).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Bűchner Funnel
- maker
- Coors Porcelain Company
- Physical Description
- porcelain (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 45.7 cm x 34.3 cm; 18 in x 13 1/2 in
- overall: 18 in x 12 1/2 in; 45.72 cm x 31.75 cm
- ID Number
- 2004.0147.009
- accession number
- 2004.0147
- catalog number
- 2004.0147.009
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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