WOULFE, PETER.

Experiments on some Mineral Substances. Communicated at the Desire of William Hunter. Read Nov. 19, 1778.

(London, J. Nicols, 1779). 4to. Extract from "Philosophical Transactions, of the Royal Society of London." Vol. 69, Year 1779 - Part I. Pp. 11-34.

First printing. In the paper Woulfe described a white tin ore and other minerals. (Partington III: p. 301).
Woulfe is mainly remembered for the two-necked bottle generally known as a Woulfe’s bottle which has long been a standard item of equipment in most chemical laboratories. The apparatus has been traced back to J. R. Glauber, and its attribution to Woulfe seems to stem from his use of a vessel with two outlets in a series of distillation experiments described in 1767. His "new method" was designed to prevent the escape of fumes "very hurtful to the lungs" by passing them through a tube into water.(DSB).

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