Mystery Glassware Identification Thread

Quote: Originally posted by monolithic

Has anyone ever come across a 24/40 thermometer adapter with o-ring that can fit a 10 mm probe? It seems most 24/40 max out at around 5-7 mm. I found this https://www.wilmad-labglass.com/Products/LG-1451-306/ but $50 is a bit steep. [Edited on 10-13-2020 by monolithic]

Quote: Originally posted by itsallgoodjames

Quote: Originally posted by monolithic   Has anyone ever come across a 24/40 thermometer adapter with o-ring that can fit a 10 mm probe? It seems most 24/40 max out at around 5-7 mm. I found this https://www.wilmad-labglass.com/Products/LG-1451-306/ but $50 is a bit steep. [Edited on 10-13-2020 by monolithic] I have a distillation adaptor that has space for a 10mm thermometer. I bought it from deschem. One of those with a stopper where the condenser might work, depending on what you're doing. I'll get the link to it if you want

Quote: Originally posted by monolithic

Quote: Originally posted by itsallgoodjames   Quote: Originally posted by monolithic   Has anyone ever come across a 24/40 thermometer adapter with o-ring that can fit a 10 mm probe? It seems most 24/40 max out at around 5-7 mm. I found this https://www.wilmad-labglass.com/Products/LG-1451-306/ but $50 is a bit steep. [Edited on 10-13-2020 by monolithic] I have a distillation adaptor that has space for a 10mm thermometer. I bought it from deschem. One of those with a stopper where the condenser might work, depending on what you're doing. I'll get the link to it if you want If it's not too much trouble can you find the link? I have a deschem 24/40 thermometer adapter but it maxes out at around 7.40 mm.

Quote: Originally posted by itsallgoodjames

Quote: Originally posted by monolithic   Quote: Originally posted by itsallgoodjames   Quote: Originally posted by monolithic   Has anyone ever come across a 24/40 thermometer adapter with o-ring that can fit a 10 mm probe? It seems most 24/40 max out at around 5-7 mm. I found this https://www.wilmad-labglass.com/Products/LG-1451-306/ but $50 is a bit steep. [Edited on 10-13-2020 by monolithic] I have a distillation adaptor that has space for a 10mm thermometer. I bought it from deschem. One of those with a stopper where the condenser might work, depending on what you're doing. I'll get the link to it if you want If it's not too much trouble can you find the link? I have a deschem 24/40 thermometer adapter but it maxes out at around 7.40 mm. The listing I bought it from seems to now be down (not surprising given I bought it over a year ago), I'll see if its been listed again under a different link

Hey, yall.
Is this a chromatography column with hooks on top for some reason, or is this some kind of vacuum adapter or filtration adapter?


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Quote: Originally posted by yobbo II

Hi, What is this item. It simply looks like a stopper with a handle. There is no access to the inside of the stopper and 'handle'. This was posted 6 - 11- 19 my myself btw Yob

Anyone know what this thingy is?


It looks like it's maybe a bubbler (or scrubber) with a suck back trap all in one piece of glassware? Perhaps you just put the liquid in the right part which can act as a bubbler or even scrubber, and if the reaction causes some negative pressure (suck back), the liquid would go into the part on the left as opposed to into the reaction vessel, then when the reaction starts generating pressure again, the liquid in the left part will get pushed back into the right part, maybe? What do you think?

P.S. I found that photo while scrolling through this amazing chemistry photo portfolio, which I found in someones signature here on SM. If any of you haven't seen that page (or the homepage of the same site), I definitely recommend spending some time scrolling through it. I had no idea chemistry could be so insanely gorgeous.

[Edited on 20-12-2020 by SuperOxide]

These pieces and others like it were donated to my classroom. I've never seen glassware that connects together this way, and I'm hoping someone can tell me what this connection style is called so I can research it.



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I was surfing eBay and came across this. The description is "Distillation apparatus reflux Quickfit CB11ND4X"
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Distillation-apparatus-reflux-Qui...




Any suggestions?

Quote: Originally posted by Sulaiman

I don't know what it is but I want one! I think that it is a part of this apparatus https://youtu.be/fMwFxUQx1PI

What is this?

Quote: Originally posted by Sulaiman

I don't know what it is but I want one! I think that it is a part of this apparatus https://youtu.be/fMwFxUQx1PI

Well I'd buy one as long as it makes that sound.

Besides, it might come in handy for the co-polymerization of amino-acid residues and carbohydrate molecules, both containing ionic groups.

It should be perfectly simple if I can gt the heavy hydrogen, and maybe a bit of radioactive thorium.






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Hi there,
Came across this strange piece when looking for glassware on my local auction site. Could anyone identify this mysterious part?



Cheers!

Crucible with a perforated base

I have a small ceramic crucible with a perforated base. Maybe it is designed to heat/react something until a molten phase can exit the base? Ant thoughts? Thanks AB

Quote: Originally posted by SWIM

Quote: Originally posted by Sulaiman   I don't know what it is but I want one! I think that it is a part of this apparatus https://youtu.be/fMwFxUQx1PI Well I'd buy one as long as it makes that sound.

wait till you you hear it in active operation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1R8Rx2db9c

We have a couple of pieces like this at work, where there is a sort of drain at the bottom of the container (a barbed hose adaptor for the erlenmeyer flask; a ground glass taper on the other bottle). Not sure, maybe they're tissue culture equipment?



Picked this up at the really free market, rather baffled. a decanter that you can add ice to without watering down your wine? A decoration? what???

Hi guys, I've bought a bulk of glass and one piece which I saw only on a picture mixed with other glass together looked like a condenser, but when I received it and was able to saw it finally it looked like an apparatus for a gas reaction. But the one part is filled with long glass tubes so when thinking further I had an idea that gasses mix well and these tubes are there probably for some liquid so maybe the apparatus is for performing liquid-gas reaction and the tubes just increase the surface of the reaction?
Do you have any suggestion for any reaction which I could perform in the apparatus? I have never did any gas-gas reaction (burning gases in air does not count) and only few times gas-liquid reaction (like addition of hydrogen chloride gas to alfa pinene and absorption of ammonia gas in ethanol using a washing bottle with a sinter on the end of bubbling tube to make smaller bubbles and increase the reaction surface).
Or is it for a gas-gas reaction which produces some liquid?
If feeding the gas through the stopcock I assume the apparatus is positioned like shown in the attached pictures, when feeding through the open joint I assume using some PTFE stopper with a hole through which a gas is fed into the apparatus and the position of the apparatus has to be swapped upside-down?
There are also 2 choices how to feed the gas, under pressure (I suppose) or using sucking through the second opening (less probable)?

This has been hanging around our lab for a while, and my colleague asked me what it was for. I suddenly realized that I didn't actually know.



ETA: The graduations are not total volume- at the bottom, they start at 1.

[Edited on 19-11-2021 by DraconicAcid]

It's a Babcock bottle.
https://wi101.wisc.edu/2013/12/01/how-does-a-babcock-tester-...

The bulb in the middle threw me off at first as I'd never seen one like that.

For determining cream content I think, but I freely admit I'm too lazy to read the article I linked and am relying on memory.

Edit: So after posting I did read the article.
Looks like you need a centrifuge for those bottles.

Edit: @Mayko: I suspect the third picture may be an oil and vinegar bottle. (A cruet set?)
These come in many different forms, all having one bottle inside the other but differing shapes.
They turn up on Ebay in the labware section now and then.

A dangerous situation since they're probably not suitable for lab use.

Edit: Yup:

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Quote: Originally posted by SWIM

It's a Babcock bottle. https://wi101.wisc.edu/2013/12/01/how-does-a-babcock-tester-... The bulb in the middle threw me off at first as I'd never seen one like that.

This is my favorite thread

So I have this second-hand store in my city which basically gets free material that is not used anymore (by companies for example) and then resells it for pretty cheap. To my surprise they also have quite a big area dedicated to lab-equipment, mainly glassware.
I recently went there and picked up this interesting piece of ground joint glassware and would like to know what it is used for (if anyone here knows).

I am going to try to explain how it's built as best as I can.
So there is 2 Hose adapters. The upper one is leading to the upper chamber which is connected with the middle chamber via a glass tube thats open on the bottom. Under the middle chamber there is a solid glass plate so no connection to the lower chamber (where the ground joint is). But then at the same time the upper chamber is connected to the lower chamber via this glass tube at the outside.

I am really confused since I could not imagine a single possible use for it. Thanks for any help in advance

"Continuous flow separator addition funnel drain reactor USA custom airlfree USA"

Anyone have any idea what this thing is actually used for?


The description makes it clear that the seller isn't entirely sure what it's used for either.

Does somebody know what the upper part of this beautiful piece of glassware look like? It should be a part of a column head, probably one that has a magnet controlled reflux or something like that. It's made by the former German glassware manufacture "Normschliff Gerätebau Wertheim". I would love to have the counterpart, maybe someone can help me with that?

Quote: Originally posted by kweiny

So I have this second-hand store in my city which basically gets free material that is not used anymore (by companies for example) and then resells it for pretty cheap. To my surprise they also have quite a big area dedicated to lab-equipment, mainly glassware. I recently went there and picked up this interesting piece of ground joint glassware and would like to know what it is used for (if anyone here knows). I am going to try to explain how it's built as best as I can. So there is 2 Hose adapters. The upper one is leading to the upper chamber which is connected with the middle chamber via a glass tube thats open on the bottom. Under the middle chamber there is a solid glass plate so no connection to the lower chamber (where the ground joint is). But then at the same time the upper chamber is connected to the lower chamber via this glass tube at the outside. I am really confused since I could not imagine a single possible use for it. Thanks for any help in advance

Quote: Originally posted by SWIM

It looks like it might function to maintain an inert atmosphere at just slightly above atmospheric pressure in a reaction flask.

A friend ask me what is these ... i have no idea xP

I can't figure out what this is: A sort of distillate separation stage for higher boiling fraction?

Quote: Originally posted by Chem Science

A friend ask me what is these ... i have no idea xP

Quote: Originally posted by electrokinetic

I recently received a rather large treasure trove of glassware from a friend who is a chem professor. Incredibly, he found all of it in or by the dumpster when he was leaving work!!! This piece is stuck to the top of a Vigreux column. My friend had no idea what it was other than the obvious: it was part of a distillation setup. I have searched google, and posted it on another forum. Someone finally suggested that it is probably a distillation splash head, and I think he's probably right, but I thought I'd post it here and see what the community here says. After all, as the someone also pointed out, if it is a splash head it would be pretty pointless at the top of a fractionating column. [Edited on 1-13-2016 by zts16]

Quote: Originally posted by VeritasC&E

I can't figure out what this is: A sort of distillate separation stage for higher boiling fraction?

Among lots of other, common pieces of used glassware from former GDR labs, I found these interesting things on a flea market stall.
The salesman had no clue what they were either.

Visited an estate sale this morning. Seen this broken item

It looks like a plate still, with 1 ground glass joint at the base and an open top
Bottom plate has a glass mesh, middle and top plates are bubblers.
Not sure if its just a gas scrubber or if they went all out making a bong

Quote: Originally posted by unionised

I was surfing eBay and came across this. The description is "Distillation apparatus reflux Quickfit CB11ND4X" https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Distillation-apparatus-reflux-Qui... Any suggestions?

Quote: Originally posted by Rainwater

Not sure if its just a gas scrubber or if they went all out making a bong

Very odd piece

Don’t know exactly what this is. I got it in a lot for a Soxhlet extractor. It looks like a mixing cylinder but it has a make joint.

Quote: Originally posted by Konduktor

Hi there, Came across this strange piece when looking for glassware on my local auction site. Could anyone identify this mysterious part? Cheers!

Is this a Kjeldahl bulb or a Chromotography Reservoir? Or both

Recently got this extremely weird piece of glassware for wich i have no idea of its use, i believe the coil would be to make the volume of liquid in it larger or something but i cant find much else

Any idea?

Quote: Originally posted by Ormarion

Recently got this extremely weird piece of glassware for wich i have no idea of its use, i believe the coil would be to make the volume of liquid in it larger or something but i cant find much else Any idea?

Found this piece of glassware in a garbage area in my school. Does anyone know what this is?

It's not glassware but I hope that is OK.

What is the extra stuff on this vacuum pump?

on ebay here:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145441349355?chn=ps&norover=1...