Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2007.22.042
Accession#:
2007.22
Credit Line:
Transferred from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
Object Name:
Plate
Year Range from:
1950
Year Range to:
1996
Description:
Hot Plate
Small, flat, thin, square piece of silver. Front and back are completely discolored.
Notes:
Made from silver. Silver had certain properties which made it good for testing certain minerals.
Used in laboratory testing to test chemical composition of materials. It was placed on a Bunsen burner and then a sample would be placed on top of it.
Search Terms:
Assaying
Mining
JMIC
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