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Description: | 99% Argon (written in ink on a paper label gummed to the ampule. Argon 99% O2 0.35% N2 o.65% (written in ink on a paper label attached to the ampule by silver wire). GLASS-WITH CARE (printed in red on a label gummed to the storage box) Rrgon (written on the label on the box). MANU Unsigned. 19th century MANU This boxed ampule of Argon appears to have been a representative sample used as a spectrographic standard. It was displayed as part of an exhibit about Ramsay since he in collaboration with Lord Rayleigh discovered the gas.
Argon was discovered by Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916) born at Glasgow and who studied at the University of Glasgow until 1870. He then worked with Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1835-1910) in his laboratory at Tübingen until 1872. | 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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