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GLASSWARES

The document discusses different categories of glass including borosilicate glass, soda-lime glass, and high silica glass. It also discusses common laboratory glassware such as graduated cylinders, burets, volumetric flasks, and different types of pipets including Mohr, serologic, micropipet, and transfer pipets.

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GLASSWARES

The document discusses different categories of glass including borosilicate glass, soda-lime glass, and high silica glass. It also discusses common laboratory glassware such as graduated cylinders, burets, volumetric flasks, and different types of pipets including Mohr, serologic, micropipet, and transfer pipets.

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GLASSWARES

GENERAL CATEGORIES OF GLASS

BOROSILICATE GLASS
 Melts at temperature between 750
and 1,100 degrees Celsius
 Hard, free of heavy metals
 Resistant to thermal shock and
alkaline corrosion
GENERAL CATEGORIES OF GLASS

BOROSILICATE GLASS
 Used for situations involving
sudden changes in
temperature, an open flame,
or electric heating elements
GENERAL CATEGORIES OF GLASS
BOROSILICATE GLASS
 Should not be heated above its strain
point
 Pyrex®
 Corex®

 Kimax®

 Vycor®
GENERAL CATEGORIES OF GLASS

BOROSILICATE
GLASS
 Pyrex®
 Strainpoint of
515 degrees
Celsius
GENERAL CATEGORIES OF GLASS

BOROSILICATE GLASS
 Corex®
 High-impact, extremely
strong glass often used
in the manufacture of
centrifuge tubes
 With aluminosilicate
GENERAL CATEGORIES OF GLASS

BOROSILICATE GLASS
 Vycor®
 Recommended for use
in application involving
high temperature,
drastic heat shock, and
extreme chemical
GENERAL CATEGORIES OF GLASS

BOROSILICATE GLASS
 Vycor®
 Usedprimarily in
ashing and ignition
techniques
GENERAL CATEGORIES OF GLASS

BOROSILICATE GLASS
 Vycor®
 Can be heated to 900
degrees Celsius and can
withstand downshocks
from this temperature
to ice water
GENERAL CATEGORIES OF GLASS

SODA-LIME GLASS
 Sometimes referred to as flint glass
 Has a high coefficient of expansion
 Readily attacked by alkaline
solutions
GENERAL CATEGORIES OF GLASS

SODA-LIME GLASS
 Commonly used for making
volumetric flasks, stirring rods,
and single-use pipets or tubes
 Minerals can be leached from the
glass into the stored solutions
GENERAL CATEGORIES OF GLASS

LOW ACTINIC GLASS


 Used to reduce
light exposure to its
content
 Amber-colored
glass
GENERAL CATEGORIES OF GLASS

HIGH SILICA GLASS


 Similar to quartz
 Accurate
spectrophotometer
cuvettes
MEASURING VESSELS
GRADUATED CYLINDERS
 Semi-accurate
 Extremely convenient for
rapid measurement of liquid
volumes
 Should never be heated
MEASURING VESSELS
BURETS
 Can deliver any volume up to its
maximum capacity
 Used for titration
 Extremely accurate in
dispensing aliquots of a solution
MEASURING VESSELS
VOLUMETRIC FLASK
 Designed to prepare solutions
of precisely known
concentrations

 Standard solutions
MEASURING VESSELS
PIPETS
 Used to transfer measured
volumes of liquid between
containers
 Design
 Drainage characteristics
 Type
MEASURING VESSELS
PIPETS
 Design
 To Contain (TC)
 holds or contains a

particular volume but


does not dispense that
exact volume
MEASURING VESSELS
PIPETS
 Design
 To Deliver (TD)
 made by weighing the
necessary volume of water
which when allowed to
flow by gravity will
deliver the exact volume
MEASURING VESSELS
PIPETS
 Drainage Characteristics
 To Deliver (TD)
 Those with a single painted or
frosted ring at the top should be
allowed to simply drain with the
tip placed against the side of the
receiving vessel
 self-draining
MEASURING VESSELS
PIPETS
 Drainage Characteristics
 To Deliver (TD)
 Those with double rings are
designed to be "blown out"
by pushing a small amount
of air out of the pipet,
completely emptying it
MEASURING VESSELS
PIPETS
 Mohr pipet
 Does not have graduations
to the tip
 self-draining pipet, but the
tip should not be allowed to
touch the vessel while the
pipet is draining
MEASURING VESSELS
PIPETS
 Serologic pipet
 Has graduation marks
to the tip, and is
generally a blowout
pipet
MEASURING VESSELS
PIPETS
 Micropipet
 With a total holding
volume of less than 1 mL
 It may be designed as
either a Mohr or
serologic pipet
MEASURING VESSELS
PIPETS
 Transfer pipet
 Designed to dispense
one volume without
further subdivisions
 Ostwald-Folin Pipet

 Pasteur Pipet
MEASURING VESSELS
PIPETS
 Automatic and Semi-
automatic pipet
 Commonly used in the
clinical laboratory

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