Kipp generator

noun

ˈkip-

: a glass laboratory apparatus for generating a gas (as hydrogen sulfide by the action of an acid on ferrous sulfide)

Word History

Etymology

after Petrus Jacobus Kipp †1864 Dutch druggist and chemist

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