Gold-leaf electroscope by Cambridge Instruments

Made:: 1930-1970

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Gold-leaf electroscope by Cambridge Instruments
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Gold-leaf electroscope by Cambridge Instruments, serial number C95 753. Used with x-ray tube to measure intensity of current by viewing decay of the gold leaf through the microscope; this established how strong the reflection from a crystal was.

From a collection relating to the X-ray crystallography research carried out by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale at University College London.

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Category:: Experimental Chemistry

Object Number:: 1993-421/30

type:: electroscope

credit:: Gift of University College London, in memory of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale

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