G LA SS W A R ES

Geromil J. Lara, RMT, MSMT

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BOROSILICATE GLASS

Melts at temperature

between 750 and 1,100

degrees Celsius
Hard, free of heavy metals
Resistant to thermal shock
and alkaline corrosion

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BOROSILICATE GLASS

Used for situations

involving sudden
changes in
temperature, an open
flame, or electric
heating elements

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BOROSILICATE GLASS

Should not be heated

above its strain point

Pyrex
Corex
Kimax
Vycor

G EN ER A L C ATEG O R IES O F
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BOROSILICATE
GLASS

Pyrex
Strain point

of 515
degrees
Celsius

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BOROSILICATE GLASS

Corex
High-impact,

extremely strong
glass often used in
the manufacture of
centrifuge tubes
With
aluminosilicate

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BOROSILICATE GLASS

Vycor
Recommended for

use in application
involving high
temperature,
drastic heat shock,
and extreme
chemical

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BOROSILICATE GLASS

Vycor
Used primarily

in ashing and
ignition
techniques

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BOROSILICATE GLASS

Vycor
Can be heated to

900 degrees Celsius

and can withstand
downshocks from
this temperature to
ice water

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SODA-LIME GLASS

Sometimes referred to

as flint glass
Has a high coefficient of
expansion
Readily attacked by
alkaline solutions

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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

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LOW ACTINIC
GLASS

Used to reduce

light exposure
to its content
Amber-colored
glass

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HIGH SILICA GLASS

Similar to

quartz
Accurate
spectrophotom
eter cuvettes

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GRADUATED CYLINDERS

Semi-accurate
Extremely convenient

for rapid measurement

of liquid volumes
Should never be heated

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BURETS

Can deliver any volume up

to its maximum capacity

Used for titration
Extremely accurate in
dispensing aliquots of a
solution

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VOLUMETRIC FLASK

Designed to prepare

solutions of precisely
known concentrations
Standard solutions

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PIPETS

Used to transfer

measured volumes of
liquid between containers
Design
Drainage characteristics
Type

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PIPETS

Design
To Contain (TC)
holds or contains
a particular
volume but does
not dispense that
exact volume

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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

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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

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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

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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

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PIPETS

Serologic pipet
Has graduation

marks to the tip,

and is generally a
blowout pipet

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PIPETS

Micropipet
With a total
holding volume of
less than 1 mL
It may be designed
as either a Mohr or
serologic pipet

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PIPETS

Transfer pipet
Designed to
dispense one
volume without
further subdivisions
Ostwald-Folin Pipet
Pasteur Pipet

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PIPETS
Automatic and Semi-

automatic pipet
Commonly used in
the clinical
laboratory

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