FLASKS [Glass]: Distilling, Erlenmeyer, Filtering, Volumetric

FLASKS [Glass]: Distilling, Erlenmeyer, Filtering, Volumetric

• Four glassware brands available: Boeco (BOE)   |   Labglass (GLA)   |   Pyrex (DS)   |   Schott (SD).
• All Flasks are low coefficient expansion borosilicate glass . (Note: *All volumetric flasks are A grade and manufactured from borosilicate glass.)
• Refer to QUICKFIT Equivalent listing for Adapters and Spares.

Flask Types:
-  BOILING : Has a round bottom and long narrow neck.
-  DISTILLING : Has a round bottom with side tube extending from neck.
-  FILTERING : Has a conical with sidearm tube extending from neck.
-  CONICAL or Erlenmeyer :  Has a narrow neck.

(Wikipedia excerpt: ..."A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc. A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.

(sciences) Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.

(engineering) A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds. A bed in a gun carriage. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A nuclear flask, a large, secure lead-lined container for the transport of nuclear material. (Newfoundland) A small bottle of liquor...")

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