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Stem hydrometer
    • Setting:
      Room VIII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      mid-17th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      length 125 mm
    • Inventory:
      178
    • Stem hydrometer (Inv. 178)

Hydrometer consisting of a short stem, graduated with enamel dots and ending in two bulbs of different diameters. The smaller bulb contains lead pellets; the liquid in the larger one is almost certainly acquarzente.