Blowpipe (tool)
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A blowpipe is one of several tools used to direct streams of gases into any of several working media.
Manual blowpipe
Diagram of a bellows-operated blowpipe, circa 1827, from A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Blowpipe
Kit for blowpipe analysis Carl Osterland, Freiberg, c. 1870
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
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Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist who discovered the element nickel in 1751 as a mining expert with the Bureau of Mines. Cronstedt is considered a founder of modern m
Blowpipe (tool)
…with the first use of the blowpipe for 'pyrognostic operations', of which no record remains. The next person of eminence who used the blowpipe was Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, who put it to the purpose of the discrimination of minerals by means of fusible reagents. In 1770, an English translation of Cronstedt's work was made…
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
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Mine building at Los