tandpasta - 4-7-2016 at 07:58
I found these large glass columns, and I was wondering what one could do with them, besides maybe turning them into abusrdly large chromatography
columns.
They are 50cm high and almost 10cm in diameter. I don't think they're made of borosilicate glass, though the walls are quite thick, 2,7mm. And they're
open at both ends.
What would you guys do with them?
Sulaiman - 4-7-2016 at 09:57
On a whim I bought something similar, then asked a similar question,
the options that I liked most were;
. build a Jacob's Ladder inside, collect the NOx as HNO3
. build a tornado in a tube, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy7zbPiK9bE
solo - 4-7-2016 at 10:42
.....I would make some chromatography columns that i can use with my alkoloid extracting project .......if you can't use them send them to me , i live
in Mexico i will pay for postage......solo
tandpasta - 4-7-2016 at 13:32
Sulaiman, do you have some theoretical material on what a Jacob's Ladder is exactly? Google and the search here doesn't explain much... What I got so
far is that you can make sulfuric acid from air, using electricity?
solo, shipping to Mexico would be at least $150 haha
aga, sorry if you're having a bad experience. Maybe it's time to upgrade that 800x600 monitor. I shrunk the photos down to just 900px wide.
Arg0nAddict - 5-7-2016 at 03:03
Mini barking dog. just use methanol or ether if you have a death wish and some ppe. I do methanol in tubes all the time. never tried ether so i cannot
say what would happen
NEMO-Chemistry - 5-7-2016 at 03:13
Those tubes are one the things that you see and go, they look really useful! Then spend many years with them in cupboard figuring out a use lol. Great
find but no idea what i would use them for, if it helps i would have brought them as well.
PHILOU Zrealone - 5-7-2016 at 10:34
Flash chromatography?
Cool aquarium?
[Edited on 5-7-2016 by PHILOU Zrealone]
10fingers2eyes - 5-7-2016 at 18:51
they would make great bass marimba resonators.
Fleaker - 6-7-2016 at 07:19
They look like borosilicate to me.
Typically borosilicate is green on the ends, quartz is white, and flint glass is black. That's what the glassblower showed me one time in college.
Sulaiman - 6-7-2016 at 07:38
One option for my giant glass tube that I am considering is as a gas scrubber,
Sometimes I have been unable to absorb or neutralise 'nasty' gasses quickly enough with 'normal size; glassware.
But a large, safe, accesible permanent space is required 
Ideally any fan could be used to pull air as any 'nasties' will be absorbed/adsorbed/neutralised...
... just dreaming ..........
EDIT: I think that the green of glass is due to iron impurities
[Edited on 6-7-2016 by Sulaiman]
tandpasta - 6-7-2016 at 14:49
Those barking dogs and Jacob's Ladders look tempting. But I don't want to die (yet).
Sulaiman, I don't think that the green indicates boro either. I've seen lots of window panes with a green tinge, and those are definitely not boro.
I've been looking at some chromatography literature, but I never see columns that are this large in diameter, would it even be practical? I'd also
need a huge amount of chromatography grade silica (expensive!).
Maybe a gas scrubber is a better idea. Or maybe a ball mill with glass beads, does that sound practical to you guys?
On the other hand, a huge soxhlet-type device is also a possibility. That'd allow me to do plant extractions on quite a large scale.
Dr.Bob - 6-7-2016 at 17:24
Gas scrubber or tube furnace makes sense. Not good for chromatography, hard to seal an open column like that, better to just use a real column, they
are cheap. Ball mill sounds like a way to make glass shards. Green glass does mean iron impurities. If it is quartz, then 254 nm light will pass
through it and make a TLC plate glow, simple lab test. That would be worth a good bit if quartz. I have seen similar tubes also, not sure what they
were for.