Broken glass tube demonstrating that potassium nitrate and water (in unknown quantities) liquifies at an unknown temperature

PART OF:: Seven glass tubes showing continuity between aqueous solution and igneous fusion in the case of saltpetre

Made:: 1885 in London

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Broken glass tube demonstrating that potassium nitrate and water (in unknown quantities) liquifies at an unknown temperature

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Category:: Heat

Object Number:: 1885-18/7

type:: demonstration of solidification of an anhydrous salt and its solution

credit:: Normal School of Science (Physical Laboratory, via Dr. F. Guthrie)

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Broken glass tube demonstrating that potassium nitrate and water (in unknown quantities) liquifies at an unknown temperature

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