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gas burettes

Vogelzang - 4-1-2010 at 15:45

I found some references that show the use of gas burettes that include leveling bulbs or bottles for hydrogenation, analysis, etc.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/8/24/2063601/chemistry/ja0...


A list of patents:

US 3387635 Fluid metering and dispensing apparatus

US 1475571 Gas tester

US 1580157 Method and apparatus for controlling operations of solvent-recovery
plants

US 1668362 Manifold for gas-analysis apparatus

US 1719864 Apparatus for gas analysis
w/ aspirator bottle

US 1724013 Leveling bottle

US 2026842 Gas analysis apparatus
w/ aspirator bottle

US 2147607 Apparatus for gas analysis

US 2192248 Spot-testing of coating metals
w/ aspirator bottle

US 2553198 Method of and apparatus for the production of boron hydrides
sep funnel

US 3539302 APPARATUS FOR RAPID ANALYSIS OF TRACE GAS
bulb 36

http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en
http://www.pat2pdf.org
http://ep.espacenet.com/numberSearch

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Vogelzang - 4-1-2010 at 15:58

Here's one gas burette I've been playing with. The top of the column was broken (I found it dumpster diving) so I sealed the one-hole stopper with the copper T with wax to the column. I can't melt the column with a propane torch. It might be quartz or silica. The column can hold about 150 ml of gas.

gas-burette.jpg - 45kB

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[Edited on 5-1-2010 by Vogelzang]

Picric-A - 4-1-2010 at 16:06

It looks rather like a gas syringe?

gsd - 4-1-2010 at 17:07


A graduated syringe IS a burette.

Picric-A - 5-1-2010 at 05:53

Burettes have stopcocks, syringes rely on pressure/vacuum.

Vogelzang - 6-1-2010 at 14:21

The column/tube connected to the sep funnel and rubber tubing might have been used as a combustion tube. It looks like something was heated in it. A 100 ml burette is on the left for comparison. I tried connecting the sep funnel and rubber tubing to that. Water goes through it a lot slower compared to the shorter column, so I was thinking of using the shorter column if I do any hydrogenation experiments. The sep funnel is 250 ml. I have a roll of correction tape that I was planning to put on the column so I can write graduation lines on it.



[Edited on 6-1-2010 by Vogelzang]