All Classic kit articles – Page 11
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OpinionRaschig's rings
Few who have listened to the music of Richard Wagner can remain indifferent to it.
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OpinionErlenmeyer flask
George Bernard Shaw once described Britain and America as being 'two countries divided by a common language
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OpinionDrechsel's bottle
Western travellers to the East fuelled a fashion for Orientalism which reached its height in the 19th century
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OpinionKjeldahl flask
Beer has made an immense contribution to humanity generally and to chemists in particular
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OpinionSchlenk apparatus
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
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Beckmann thermometer
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
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OpinionKipp's apparatus
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
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OpinionBunsen burner
In terms of equipment associated with science, few, if any, are more iconic...
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Soxhlet extractor
One sure-fire way of entering the chemical pantheon is to get your name associated with a piece of kit