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Caption: Dedication - New Chemistry Building
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dark room opens from this laboratory with ample facilities for the photographic work of metallography. All of the rooms of this suite have suitable electrical LABORATORY FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL RESEARCH circuits for small experimental furnaces and electrolytic work. A large storeroom and an ore sampling room are placed near the furnace room. In the basement of the older portion of the building several smaller research rooms are equipped for the study of various problems. Here also are shop facilities for work in connection with industrial courses and investigations; a coal grinding and sampling room, and other rooms for special purposes. On the first floor are laboratories for gas and fuel analysis, calorimetry, technology of gases, paints, oils, asphalts, paper, textiles, etc., as well as the laboratories for the chemical work of the Engineering Experiment Station and the State Board of Administration. The laboratory for gas and fuel analysis accommodates 120 students working in sections. The student calorimeter room permits the use of 15 calorimeters at once. A balance room is adjacent to this laboratory. Three laboratories for advanced work in fuels, oils, road materials, tars, paints, etc., are fitted with the standard equipment of the new laboratory as well as for steam and electrical distillation, A large dark (50)
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