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Thursday, August 25, 2011

More lab apparatuses

Soon, we moved on to learning at a greater detail on the other apparatuses such as
the boiling tubes,
the test tubes,
the conical flask,
the round-bottomed flask,
the flat-bottomed flask,
retort stands,and so on...
What captures me the most was the round-bottomed flask as i did not know how it can be balanced on a tripod stand or what uses are there of it being rounded at the bottom. But i soon learned that it should be attached to a retort stand over the bunsen burner if there is a need to heat anything and the round bottom was to spread the heat pretty much evenly.

First practical!!!

Wow i was so excited because it was my fist practical and i had no idea what we were doing but it was exhilarating as i held my test tubes. Soon, we realised it was about the lab apparatus, mostly the instructions to turn on a bunsen burner without burning ourselves.