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Liebig condenser in a laboratory setup showing inner tube and outer water jacket, with hoses attached for coolant flow during distillation and reflux.

How a Liebig Condenser Really Works (So You Don’t Flood the Lab)

Editor’s note: Most of the foundational work on condensers and on Justus von Liebig’s teaching laboratory was published in German, where Liebig lived and worked as a chemist and professor. Many of those primary sources have never been translated or made easily searchable online, so what you see below leans on peer‑reviewed articles, museum archives, and …

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