Take a break and relax your mind with a few interesting trivia facts around your laboratory.

If you have ended up on this page, then the most probable reasons would be, you are a lab technician, a scientist, a science student or an enthusiast. It always boring to take about chemicals, reactions, procedures and scientific inferences. In this article, Emphor DLAS is opening doors to little know interesting facts regarding laboratory glassware. Irrespective of what you do for science, this post is nothing sort of gaining some cool information. Some important tools used in science labs include pipette, autoclave, bioreactor, shakers & mixers, incubators, thermal cyclers, fume hoods, reagents, microscope, biological safety cabinets, bioreactor, pipettes tips, ULT freezers and many more.

 

The Facts are stated below:

  1. Borosilicate glass has low thermal expansion property, which is the reason why they are used widely in the manufacture of laboratory glassware. You might be familiar with borosilicate glass in your kitchen as much as in the laboratory. This is because some of the kitchenware that needs to get heated is made with borosilicate.
  2. A beaker has straight sides, a flask can have angled or even curved sides.
  3. Not all labware is made out of glass, some of them are made with plastics. Plastic labware is made used in which experiments don’t need heat. Glassware need to be handled with extreme care.
  4. There are class A and class B variant laboratory glassware. Class B is more extensively used for measurement whereas Class A provide much better measurement but comes with a pocket burning cost. It isn’t necessarily better made.
  5. 10L Griffin Beakers, say wow to the large capacity !!!
  6. Most laboratory equipment are named after its shape or the purpose they serve, for example measuring cylinder, round-bottom flask, pipette, test tube etc. While Griffin Beaker is named after the 19th-century chemist John Joseph Griffin, same as the case of Erlenmeyer Flasks which are named after a German chemist, Emil Erlenmeyer.
  7. Here is a quick bite regarding the usage of different equipment. Griffin Beaker for simple reactions. Erlenmeyer Flask for shaking up the chemicals. Round bottom flask for even heating of a mixture. Mouthed flask is always better when doing filtering than using a beaker.
  8. So who is the master of jack of all trades, call him the Test Tube. Test Tubes are the most popular labware used universally. They are used for a variety of purposes such as mixing, heating, etc.
  9. There are two kinds of stoppers used on flask, the rubber stopper and the cork stopper. Stoppers control the flow of chemicals in the flask. Most measurements done in the flask are by rubber stoppers. Cork stoppers have a different scale.
  10.  Cleaning the labware after an experiment is a critical and mostly underrated process. Some chemicals just won’t go or flasks don’t get cleaned using a dishwasher. Running water can’t help to clean intricate opening like of pipette tubes. One needs to buy special cleaning brushes for cleaning each labware. Flasks needs to be washed by hands to make them clean.

 

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