DWK Safety Blog – Reducing Spillages
Spillages are a common occurrence in the lab and can be a health and safety risk. The spilled contents themselves…
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DWK safety tips and tricks – heating laboratory glass
Heating glassware is an important topic as heat can change the volume of the glassware if the temperature used is…
How do I set up Soxhlet extraction apparatus?
Soxhlet extraction is used for extracting a compound of low solubility from a solid sample (typically natural or environmental samples…
How do I set up distillation apparatus?
Quickfit glassware is incredibly handy when setting up experiments involving a lot of individual pieces and connections as the pieces…
Q: My Quickfit® Glassware joint sizes do not match, what can I do?
A: Use one of the Quickfit® expansion or reduction adapters Quickfit® glassware comes with a range of joint sizes. When…
Interchangeable Laboratory Glassware – Quickfit® Understanding the Connections
How often have you spent time trying to find the right pieces of glassware to fit together to construct your set-up? A…
What ar the Differences Between Glass Types commonly used for Laboratory Glassware?
Glass types can be confusing to understand, however, the variation in chemical composition provides the glass with different properties. Two…
What gives Pyrex glassware its advantages?
Glass is an inorganic mixture of metal oxides fused together at high temperatures, which upon cooling, solidifies into the clear,…
Sintered disc or sintered frit filtration funnels – how to care for sintered discs? When to select a sintered disc funnel? What do sintered disc grades mean?
Vacuum filtrations using a Buchner flask and funnel with a vacuum pump are commonly used to isolate a solid of…
What are the temperature limits for Pyrex glassware?
Q: What is the highest and lowest temperature that Pyrex glassware should be exposed to?
Pyrex glass turns 100 this year!
2015 marks 100 years since the invention of Pyrex glass – used in almost all laboratory glassware for it’s excellent…
Need a large vessel to culture organisms?
Fernbach culture flasks from Scilabware are ideally suited to large volume cell cultures where a large surface area to volume ratio…