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.
1800. trans. Lagrange’s Chem., I. 109. A bent tube immersed to the bottom of the water, contained in one of Woulf’s bottles.
1815. J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, II. 311. Woulfe’s apparatus evolved so large a quantity of subtile, elastic, and often incondensable vapours.
1827. Faraday, 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.
1855. J. Scoffern, Elem. Chem., 358. The … Woulfes bottles are about two-thirds filled with water.
