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Dry Reagent Storage Bottles
Does anyone know where I can get some storage bottles for dry reagents, similar to the ones Elemental Scientific sells reagents in? Would Elemental
be likely to sell some to me if I asked their customer service or give me their suppliers name?
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Free bottles
I have been asking my pharmacist for some empty bulk pill bottles. I have been getting 500 & 750 mL sizes but they are pretty big unless you are
buying large quantities of chemicals. Another past favorite was urine sample bottles at the various ultrasound, doctor and midwife appointments when
my wife was pregnant. High quality and liquid tight...
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http://www.specialtybottle.com/
I get a lot of my stuff from there. The "Packers" and the "French Square" are my personal dry reagent favorites. They are also quite cheap and do not
need to be purchased in bulk. Good half-liter glas storage bottles with phenolic caps are around 1 USD.
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Many supermarkets and others will sell plastic and glass bottles with large lids that are pretty suitable for powder shipping. I was surprised to see
exactly similar type and manufacturer plastic bottle's at my local market that one official chemical dealer supplies its' powder chemicals.
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I have bought nice bottles from "scuddlebutt3" on eBay in packs of 25 for pretty cheap. They also sell lots of dyes and chemicals, I even bought a
10ml ampoule of 5% osmium tetroxide solution from them before.
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I'll second the recommendation of specialty bottle. The amber glass packers are what I buy for storing powders; nice large openings allow for easy
dispensing. I also buy their 2 dram vials for displaying samples for my element collection. Fast processing and no minimum order quantity!
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I get all my vials at elemental scientific, I use the 3 dram for my element collection. A set of 12 costs only $3.18, quite a bit cheaper than
specialty bottle. Slooow processing and $25.00 minimum order.
http://www.elementalscientific.net/store/scripts/prodList.asp?idCategory=141
3 dram vial from Elemental Scientific, with magnesium turnings (with quarter for size comparison).
I like the lids a lot to, it makes a complete seal, and can tolerated chlorine for 3 months, and likely will indefinitely.
[Edited on 19-2-2014 by Zyklonb]
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I have loads of glass bottles, glass and plastic vials, plastic bottles, tubes and vials, etc available. Do you have a particular size, shape,
volume in mind? I even have some sample containers like that are used for water and urine samples, as well as larger ones. I have 1, 2, 4, and 6
dram vials, plus larger ones, in quantities from 12-100's. Just let me know what you are looking for.
Bob
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Thanks for all of the ideas. Praxichys thanks for the "packers", that gave me a keyword to search for on Amazon which turned up LabStock brand
bottles for a dollar a piece with FREE shipping, I just can't merit paying $25.00 for shipping glass.
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I finally got around to ordering from Specialty Bottle and the order came in yesterday. 100-250cc packers and three dozen 60cc packers, the box was
huge. Customer service was friendly and helpful and shipping times were very quick, ordered on Monday. Nothing was broken in shipping but costs were
a little high, though that might have something to do with the huge 50lb box .
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Another good one is Freund Container. Last week I received 24 of their 16oz straight-sided jars and 12 of the 32oz variety, all for around $2 per jar.
http://www.freundcontainer.com/straight-sided-squat-glass-ja...
These have been excellent to store chemicals in. They are also available with Teflon caps if you want to pay $7 each.
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Anyone know where to get similar to caps and bottles like this? They are made by "Fischer" but i can not find it on their website. The bottles have a
really nice look to them 
EDIT: Re-scaled photo
[Edited on 20-6-2014 by Mr_Magnesium]
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Quote: Originally posted by Mr_Magnesium  |
Anyone know where to get similar to caps and bottles like this? They are made by "Fischer" but i can not find it on their website. The bottles have a
really nice look to them |
These are tamper sealed bottles, I believe you need a special machine to seal them, usually all the big chem companies ship in those bottles. Sigma,
Aesar, all those guys, you could call and ask...
[Edited on 6-20-2014 by numos]
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http://www.sciplus.com/p/VIAL-5ml-CLEAR-GLASS-WGASKETED-SCRE...
Science madness has super cheap vials. I may order some...
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Science madness? Since when do we have a shop? 
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I just got a delivery of bottles almost exactly the same from www.oxfordchemserve.com
The anti-tamper ring just needs the lid to be screwed on tight.
No special tools required.
When you unscrew it, the ring detaches from the cap, so you can tell it's been opened.
Seems they're UN approved etc etc.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Mr_Magnesium | 
Anyone know where to get similar to caps and bottles like this? They are made by "Fischer" but i can not find it on their website. The bottles have a
really nice look to them |
Fischer is a chemical company based in china.
Their site: http://fischer.en.alibaba.com/
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| Quote: Originally posted by numos | These are tamper sealed bottles, I believe you need a special machine to seal them, usually all the big chem companies ship in those bottles. Sigma,
Aesar, all those guys, you could call and ask...
[Edited on 6-20-2014 by numos] |
No special machine needed! Screw on then it clicks and thats that.
Isn't Oxfordchem owned by a local ? Unfortunately i am in Australia!
I thought it was these people: http://www.fischerplastics.com.au/
Even if they do sell the bottles their minimum purchase amounts are huge.
After searching i finally found them in Australia! http://www.labfriend.com.au/square-shape-reagent-bottles-wid...
http://www.labfriend.com.au/tamper-evident-cap-311-series-pp...
Only downside is that their shipping times are horrendous from what i have been told by Zig.
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In chemistry, Fisher Scientific was one of the leading suppliers of chemicals and lab equipment. Since 2006, after a merger with Thermo Electron,
they've been known as Thermo Fisher Scientific, though they still go by the name "Fisher" colloquially.
This just in: 95,5 % of the world population lives outside the USA
You should really listen to ABBAPlease drop by our IRC channel: #sciencemadness @ irc.efnet.org
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I was talking about Fischer not Fisher.
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Just found another source for bottles that's significantly cheaper than specialty bottle. I've only placed one order from them so far, but it all arrived intact and
the shipping was a lot cheaper than specialty bottle.(One of my orders cost $40 in shipping) Just another option out there.
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By dry reagent bottles, I'm assuming you guys mean anything that didn't used to hold pepsi.. Try scintillation vials, they're pretty chill... Some are
better than others, but eh what can you do
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It was meant as something to contain reasonable amounts(i.e. 125g-250g) of solid chemicals, rather than Boston Round bottles for storing liquids. It
was a poor choice of words on my part.
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I found another good source. They have wholesale to the public pricing and $6.95 shipping rates!
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I have a more limited supply that some sources, but if you want mostly PTFE lined caps, I still have a good mix of vials and bottles, and can make a
mix of containers for most uses. And rather than $7 each for PTFE lined, most of the 60 - 250 ml containers I have are $2-3, less in bulk. I have
supplied about 6 people here with a medium or large flat rate box of bottles and vials for around $60-80, including postage, each containing 40-80
glass containers. Hard to go too wrong with that. I can customize the package to hold more of any size, type or style. If any of those buyers
want to comment, I would appreciate any feedback on the deals I have done.
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