Allihn filter tube

noun

: a glass filtering funnel the top part of which is a cylindrical tube into which is sealed a fritted glass disk as a filter

Word History

Etymology

after Felix Richard Allihn †1915 German chemist

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

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