Air samples collected by James Lovelock from New Zealand and South Africa
- Made:
- 1980-1989 in New Zealand and South Africa
- preparer:
- James Ephraim Lovelock
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LicenseSealed air sample (10 tubes) from the Southern hemisphere taken
Science Museum Group Collection
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Sealed air sample (10 tubes) from the Southern hemisphere taken
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Sealed air sample (10 tubes) from the Southern hemisphere taken
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Sealed air sample (10 tubes) from the Southern hemisphere taken
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Sealed air sample (10 tubes) from the Southern hemisphere taken
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Sealed air sample (10 tubes) from the Southern hemisphere taken
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Sealed air sample (10 tubes) from the Southern hemisphere taken
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Sealed air sample (10 tubes) from the Southern hemisphere taken
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Sealed air sample (10 tubes) from the Southern hemisphere taken
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Sealed air sample (10 tubes) from the Southern hemisphere taken
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Sealed air sample (10 tubes) from the Southern hemisphere taken
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Air samples in ten sealed glass tubes, collected by James Lovelock whilst studying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in New Zealand and South Africa, c. 1985.
These glass tubes are a time capsule of our atmosphere. They were left over from a research trip scientist and inventor James Lovelock undertook to measure levels of a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gas that had been widely used in fire extinguishers. Armed with glass tubes and a flask of liquid nitrogen, he used a technique called cryogenic pumping to concentrate the air 100 times before sealing each tube with a blow torch.
Details
- Category:
- Experimental Chemistry
- Object Number:
- 2012-124
- Materials:
- glass
- type:
- sample
- credit:
- Lovelock, James Ephraim
