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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1998.0224.002
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 2
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Quartz (possibly)
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 10.2 cm
- Width
- 10.2 cm
- Height
- 4.4 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Physics
- Category
- Atomic & nuclear
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- PROBABLY USED IN THE 1960S
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
Coil spring with a known tension used as a reference to measure microunits of weight in a tension balance. - Technical
-
VERY PRECISE MEASURING DEVICES HAD TO BE DEVELOPED TO DETERMINE THE WEIGHT OF MICROUNITS WHEN DOING NUCLEAR RESEARCH - THIS IS ONE SUCH DEVICE. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- None apparent
- Missing
- Possibly missing attachment point at one end.
- Finish
- Colourless quartz spring.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Coil, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1998.0224, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1998.0224.002/
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