Yttrium2
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Least expensive, most practical chemistry set
Has anybody ever used a filtration flask in a distillation?
tubing could connect it to a condenser, or the tubing itself could be used to condense the vapor.
*** talking about stoppering the top, and having tubing coming from the vacuum port.
It seems that this,
a 4 way claisen adapter
a thermometer
set of test tubes
pipette
graduate cylinder
long glass tube
stoppers
-- would be the most practical, least expensive chemistry kit, that has ever been invented.
***& goggles.
[Edited on 5/16/2021 by Yttrium2]
[Edited on 5/16/2021 by Yttrium2]
[Edited on 5/16/2021 by Yttrium2]
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j_sum1
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Not sure why you are trying to cut corners.
Cutting down on the number of items of glassware will limit your versitility.
With the approach you are taking, you only need to break one item and everything else is useless. Actually, you don'e even need to break it. You
just need to have something else you have made sitting in yoru measuring cylinder and you are unable to use it as a reveiving flask or to measure any
more reagents.
Even the addition of a couple of beakers would improve your "kit" no end.
As ever, it really depends on what you are trying to do.
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Texium
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Not to mention that filter flasks are not designed to be heated. They are made out of extra thick glass, which is meant to withstand a high vacuum,
but they don’t stand up well to thermal shock compared to thinner glass. And the necessity of distilling through tubing and likely needing to use a
rubber stopper on the flask would severely limit what you could distill out of it.
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