Spare pieces for building crystal models

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Spares for crystal models including: one wooden sphere, five wooden octahedra, four wooden tetrahedra fixed together and one wooden cube with wedge stuck to it.

Part of a collection of models used to teach Crystallography at King's College London in the nineteenth century.

Details

Category:
Experimental Chemistry
Object Number:
1927-2066/109
Materials:
wood (unidentified)
Measurements:
cube with wedge: 40 mm x 30 mm x 30 mm,
octahedra: 56 mm x 40 mm x 40 mm,
tetrahedra: 30 mm x 55 mm x 55 mm,
sphere: 40 mm,
type:
molecular models and crystal models
credit:
King's College, London