UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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an operating room, refrigerator room, and a dark room

TlIK DIVISION OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Occupies t h e

north end of the first floor and in addition has a calorimetric laboratory and an electric furnace laboratory in the basement. The space devoted to undergraduate work is in the old building except one optical laboratory and a balance room. The large undergraduate laboratory has working space for 50 students. A feature of the arrangement of space in the new building is the segregation of certain kinds of work in rooms designed for special purposes. The.preparation and purification of all chemicals will be carried out in the two preparation laboratories. One contains various types of distilling and subliming apparatus, vacuum pumps, electrical furnaces, and generators furnishing a variety of pure gases. The adjoining room is furnished with apparatus for precipitation, crystallization, filtration, centrifuging, drying, cooling, etc. The cleaning room is equipped with a steam drying closet; an iron vat which is surrounded by steam coils and is filled with chromic acid cleaning solution; and a deep roomy sink with glass drain boards. The titration laboratory has a white tile floor and the walls, ceiling and furniture are finished with white enamel laboratory paint. The room has a north and east

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