THE STORY BEHIND THE TERM

posted: 10/15/00

test tube As chemists went "on the road" in the late 1700s, they developed small portable cabinets to house their apparatus. As reaction and test vessels, they used wine glasses. Michael Faraday imagined the alternative -- a test tube, saving space and expense.

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