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Woulfe|wʊlf| Also Woulf. [The surname of Peter Woulfe (? 1727–1803), a London chemist.] Woulfe's apparatus, a series of glass receivers (Woulfe's bottles) formerly used in distillation.
1800tr. Lagrange's Chem. I. 109 A bent tube immersed to the bottom of the water, contained in one of Woulf's bottles. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 311 Woulfe's apparatus evolved so large a quantity of subtile, elastic, and often incondensable vapours. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. xv. (1842) 369 An arrangement of vessels first devised by Glauber, but which with some modifications, has since received the name of Woulfe's apparatus. 1855Scoffern Elem. Chem. 358 The..Woulfes bottles are about two-thirds filled with water. |