TUBING [Glass Tube]: Borosilicate, Soda, Capillary

TUBING [Glass Tube]: Borosilicate, Soda, Capillary

A variety selection of Glass tubes and capillary tubes made from borosilicate 3.3 or soda glass, with ranges from between 300mm to 1-metre .
Particularly ideal for use in the science laboratory.

(Wikipedia excerpt: "...Glass tubes [GT] are mainly cylindrical hollow-wares. Their special shape combined with the huge variety of glass types (like borosilicate, flint, aluminosilicate, soda lime, lead or quartz glass), allows the use of glass tubing in many applications. For example, laboratory glassware, lighting applications, solar thermal systems and pharmaceutical packaging to name the largest.[1]

In the past, scientists constructed their own laboratory apparatus prior to the ubiquity of interchangeable ground glass joints. Today, commercially available parts connected by ground glass joints are preferred; where specialized glassware are required, they are made to measure using commercially available [GT] by specialist glassblowers. For example, a Schlenk line is made of two large glass tubes, connected by stopcocks and smaller [GT] , which are further connected to plastic hoses

Compared to other materials like plastics the importance of cylindrical half-finished products in glass is high. Main reasons are the difficulty associated with 3-d forming of glass in general. In order to create hollow objects from glass the cylinder shape is a natural starting material....")