Description

White porcelain funnel with a vertical-walled upper chamber that leads to a fixed porcelain filtering plate. The funnel continues after the plate, and tapers into a small angled spout.

A Büchner funnel is a piece of laboratory equipment that is used for the vacuum-assisted filtration and separation of precipitates from a solution. This funnel was used by the MIT Chemistry Department until it was donated to the museum in 1978.