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Chemicals

Matter of constant composition best characterized by the entities (molecules, formula units, atoms) it is composed of and characterized by physical properties like density

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Images referencing Chemicals

7 images from works
  • Two children wait nervously while an alchemist secretively concocts a mixture at his stove. Pen and wash drawing by G. Robinson.
  • Bleaching: vats and cauldrons for bleaching cloth. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1803.
  • Chemical Laboratory room. Experimental Research labs, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. Tuckahoe, New York.
  • London Mechanics' Institute, Southampton Buildings, Holborn: the interior of the laboratory, in a cellar. Wood engraving by W. C. Walker after Mr. Davy [1828].
  • Leaf, Turkey Oak (Quercus cerris)
  • Checking darkroom chemicals, x-rays
  • Two children wait nervously while an alchemist secretively concocts a mixture at his stove. Pen and wash drawing by G. Robinson.

Works from the collections

21 works

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    Chemical Laboratory room. Experimental Research labs, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. Tuckahoe, New York.

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    La Chine : son histoire, ses ressources / Louis Strauss.

    Strauss, Louis. | Date: 1874
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    Unilever-Emery products for the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries : product sales bulletin 14.801.11: issue 7312 / Unilever-Emery.

    Unilever-Emery (Gouda) | Date: [1973?]
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    A practical essay on chemical re-agents of tests / by Fredrick Accum.

    Accum, Friedrich Christian, 1769-1838. | Date: 1816
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    Some aspects of the chemistry of opium / by S. F. Dyke.

    Dyke, S. F. | Date: 1965

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