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Stem hydrometer
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      mid-17th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      length 110 mm
    • Inventory:
      185
    • Stem hydrometer (Inv. 185)

Hydrometer consisting of a graduated stem with white enamel dots. The glass has yellow traces. Attached to the bulb, where traces of mercury can be observed, are three glass rings from which a small iron triangle is suspended by means of small chains. This type of instrument was probably intended to measure the density of wines.