overall: 648 mm x 115 mm x 20 mm; 25 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in x 13/16 in
overall: 25 1/4 in x 4 5/8 in x 2 in; 64.135 cm x 11.7475 cm x 5.08 cm
Object Name:
Nitrometer
Description:
A nitrometer determines the amount of nitrogen in a substance. Walter Crum, a practical chemist in Glasgow, published an account of the nitrogen reaction in 1847. George Lunge, a German chemist working in Zurich, described a practical nitrometer in 1878.
Ref: Walter Crum, “On a Method for the Analysis of Bodies containing Nitric Acid, and its application to Explosive Cotton,” Philosophical Magazine 30 (1847): 426-431.
W. C. Cope and J. Barab, “Application of the Nitrometer for the Determination of Constitution and Estimation of Nitrogen in a Class of Nitrocompounds (Nitroamines),” Journal of the American Chemical Society 38 (1916): 2552-2558.
