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Stem hydrometer
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      mid-17th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      length 205 mm
    • Inventory:
      180
    • Stem hydrometer (Inv. 180)

Hydrometer with a stem ending in a small spherical bulb. The bulb contains lead pellets. The stem is graduated with white and black enamel dots. Four short tubes depart from the stem and end in spheres, one of which is broken. The spheres are in a radial arrangement perpendicular to the stem.