Early hand-made liquid nitrogen dewar

Artifact Number:

2021-009

Description

A 22 cm long, welded, stainless-steel dewar made in the Chalk River laboratories for the containment/transfer of liquid nitrogen.  The double walled vessel has a relatively small volume of less than 1 liter and would have been used to transport liquid nitrogen to cold traps on experimental beam lines at the accelerator facility.

Details

Keywords:
physics tools
Date:
~1950
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