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
SMG00231879

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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)