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Description: | "SILAX" MADE IN ENGLAND (green stencil in the glaze). I.R. LAB (blue felt tip pen on unglazed bas). MANU Silax 20th century England This is a porcelain sample or sample preparation tray with 12 round depressions other wise known as a tile and originally made of "Berlin" porcelain for use in medical laboratories. In an infra-red spectroscopy laboratory it would have been used for dissolving samples for analysis in solvents or for mulling into dispersions in mediums such as 'Nugol' which is a purified and dried saturated liquid parafin. The prepared samples were then placed in a potassium bromide cell or between two potassium bromide discs or discs made of other comparable infra-red transparent salts. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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