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FunctionChemistry.
From Webster's 1913 unabridged: "Aluminium (Al`u*min"i*um) n. [L. alumen. See Alum.] (Chem.) The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, having a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al."
Notecard in drawer where this specimen was found: "All the instruments and specimens in these boxes are the property of Wm. T. Richards the gift of his father (T.W.R.) [Theodore W. Richards]. They are historically valuble. Jan 1928. W.T.R. Says for museum." Theodore William Richards (b. Germantown, PA Jan. 31, 1868; d. Cambridge, MA May 2, 1928), Instructor in Chemistry, 1891-1894, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 1894-1901, Professor of Chemistry, 1901-1912, Erving Professor of Chemistry, 1912-1928 and first Director of the Gibbs Laboratory, 1913-1928. Richards received the Davy Medal of the Royal Society (1910), the Faraday Medal of the Chemical Society in (1911), and the Willard Gibbs Medal of the American Chemical Society (1912). He was also the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1914) for determining the atomic weights of 25 elements. He also did work in thermochemistry, for which the barometer may have been used, and electrochemistry.
Historical AttributesProperty of Theodore W. Richards (1868-1928) .
Notecard in drawer where this specimen was found: "All the instruments and specimens in these boxes are the property of Wm. T. Richards the gift of his father (T.W.R.) [Theodore W. Richards]. They are historically valuble. Jan 1928. W.T.R. Says for museum."
ProvenanceWilliam Theodore Richards. Originally from his father T.W. Richards.