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Hedwig glasses or Hedwig beakers are a type of glass beaker originating in the Middle East or Norman Sicily and dating from the 10th-12th centuries AD. They are named after the Silesian princess Saint Hedwig (1174–1245), to whom three of them are traditionally said to have belonged. [1] So far, a total of 14 complete glasses are known. [2]
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Beaker made using the ‘Zwischengoldglas’ technique, mid 18th century V&A Museum no. 1271-1872. Zwischengoldglas, (German "gold between glass", plural Zwischengoldgläser) is a type of decorated glassware in which a design in gold leaf is created on a glass vessel, then sealed under another precisely-fitting glass vessel, which is then bonded to the first piece with cement.
A Fleaker is a brand of container for liquids used in the laboratory. It can be described as a cross between the Griffin beaker and the Erlenmeyer flask. [1]Like a beaker, the bottom is flat, with the sides meeting the bottom at a 90-degree angle.
Beaker (drinkware), a beverage container; Beaker (laboratory equipment), a glass container used for holding liquids in a laboratory setting; Beaker (archaeology), a prehistoric drinking vessel; Beaker culture, the archaeological culture often called the Beaker people; Sippy cup, referred to as a beaker in UK English
Glass bottles and glass jars are found in many households worldwide. The first glass bottles were produced in Mesopotamia around 1500 B.C., and in the Roman Empire in around 1 AD. [1] America's glass bottle and glass jar industry was born in the early 1600s, when settlers in Jamestown built the first glass-melting furnace.
(B) A tall-form or Berzelius beaker (C) A flat beaker or crystallizer Philips beaker which can be swirled like a conical flask. Standard or "low-form" (A) beakers typically have a height about 1.4 times the diameter. [3] The common low form with a spout was devised by John Joseph Griffin and is therefore sometimes called a Griffin beaker.
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