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Your favorite lab equipment
Just a topic to share the lab equipment that simplifies the most your life or that you prefer to work with for whatever reason.
I have 3 pieces that I like particularily:
1- Buchner funnel : Since I have received my buchner funel 2 months ago, i'd rather kill myself than use the extremely slow inneficient messy gravity
filtration again.
2- Ground glass joint erlenmeyer, because it heats up so fast and is just far less not necessary trouble than a RBF when more than one neck is not
necessary. And you don't have to always carry a god damn stand and be afrait that it rolls.
3- Ground glass anti-splash adapter, because some liquids just can't boil without foaming or bumping crap everywhere around. It's always a pain when
something spills over the container and on the hotplate or in your apparatus.
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I couldn't do without 4 ml vials. Easy for running parallel small scale screening reactions!
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Test tubes!
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2- Ground glass joint erlenmeyer, because it heats up so fast and is just far less not necessary trouble than a RBF when more than one neck is not
necessary. And you don't have to always carry a god damn stand and be afrait that it rolls.
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Yes! Just "made my own" 24/29 Erlenmeyer (joint from broken RBF and lots of teflon tape  )
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1. Pressure equalizing dropper funnel, makes gas generators care free, no babysitting required
2. Beakers - simple, cheap, and used in basically everything I do, from measuring to weighing, to running simple reaction, to heating, etc etc. If not
my favorite then definitely the most useful
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1. The Buchner funnel and vacuum filtration system that I don't have yet 
2. My crappy little kitchen hotplate, seems to be used for just about everything
3. As weird as it is… Yogurt cups! They're sturdy and made of heat/chemical resistant PP. They make perfect weigh boats, evaporating dishes, or just
places to put stuff temporarily. The wider Greek yogurt type ones are the best. I don't really eat yogurt, but my mom does a lot, so I save the cups.
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Pipettes and disposable plastic cups. I use a certain brand of clear plastic cups because they're good for demonstrations.
At the end of the day, simulating atoms doesn't beat working with the real things...
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I must admit test tubes are great, half of the time I use them they break, explode, get dissolved by molten bases or become permanently stained... If
I had to use expensive glassware for that I'd be ruined :p
Haha I'd like to see a picture of that
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3. As weird as it is… Yogurt cups! They're sturdy and made of heat/chemical resistant PP. They make perfect weigh boats, evaporating dishes, or just
places to put stuff temporarily. The wider Greek yogurt type ones are the best. I don't really eat yogurt, but my mom does a lot, so I save the cups.
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That is a freaking awesome idea, it's for things like that that I made this thread. I'm out buying yogurt ! :p
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a bit of teflon tape.....
 
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buchner funnel... i must second that! honestly, i have used almost all of my glassware extensively so i wouldn't want to do without any of it. i also
love my separatory funnel. my best pieces are my pressure equalized funnels. if one has the patience to babysit them, peach planted the awesome idea
in my head that they can be used as a cheap, imitation soxhlet system. just have to be present to open the stopcock every 20-30 minutes. i was
surprised how well it works!
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It fits well in place, more than I would have thought.
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being "poor" at times has its advantages--I'm a recycler from hell!
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...without a doubt, my fume hood.
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brb crying :p
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^^^word. it's on my list. i sort of dislike having weather dictate my experimentation schedule. the luxury of a fume hood would change life!
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Same thing for me. Today it rains as hell... day off.
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Move to the desert m8's. Rain is a cause for CELEBRATION LOL
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Certainly my Buchner Funnel is one of my most commonly used lab items. A reflux setup is a great necessity as well!
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Hotplate/stirrer I think is my favorite... No flames, it stirs so I don't have to...maybe I'm just lazy 
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That's something i'm gonna buy when i'll have money (like in 5 years, after university -_-) ^^ And nah, seriously, hand stiring with a glass rod is
annoying, trust me !
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i envy you to some extent for that. the lack of humidity would aid in chemical storage!
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Oh Lord, do I SO not miss the humidity in LA (Lower Arkansas)
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Not very humid where I live either, but that's primarily because of the abnormally long drought.
Hopefully it doesn't go on too much longer. The place will turn into a desert.
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My perfectly spherical round-bottom flasks. They catch the light so well that any liquid inside them just shimmers and glows.
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