All articles by Andrea Sella – Page 12

  • CLASSIC-KIT-Mohr-250
    Opinion

    Mohr's burette

    2008-02-26T15:31:00Z

    Titrations are the symbol of all that is boring in science

  • CLASSIC-KIT-150
    Opinion

    Sprengel pump

    2008-01-28T13:59:00Z

    It has long been said that nature abhors a vacuum

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Schlenk apparatus

    2007-12-20T14:20:00Z

    Wilhelm Johann Schlenk, the German chemist who prepared some of the first organosodium and organolithium compounds, and developed the inert-atmosphere techniques now common in many labs

  • Opinion

    Beckmann thermometer

    2007-11-28T14:11:00Z

    There was a time, long ago, that few of us remember, when you couldn't just head down to the basement and get a quick NMR or mass spectrum of your latest compound

  • classic-kit-250
    Opinion

    Kipp's apparatus

    2007-10-26T11:24:00Z

    If there's one piece of glassware other than a conical flask that spells the word 'chemistry' in the minds of most people it is Kipp's apparatus

  • CLASSIC-KIT-200
    Opinion

    Bunsen burner

    2007-10-02T12:24:00Z

    In terms of equipment associated with science, few, if any, are more iconic...

  • Opinion

    Soxhlet extractor

    2007-08-28T13:32:00Z

    One sure-fire way of entering the chemical pantheon is to get your name associated with a piece of kit