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Title: A Handbook of Laboratory Glass-Blowing

Author: Bernard D. Bolas

Illustrator: Naomi Bolas

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Language: English

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A HANDBOOK OF LABORATORY GLASS-BLOWING

_To my Friends
Eric Reid
and
Sidney Wilkinson_

A Handbook of Laboratory Glass-Blowing

BY

BERNARD D. BOLAS

WITH NUMEROUS DIAGRAMS IN THE TEXT

BY NAOMI BOLAS

[Illustration]

LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
1921

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. Introduction and Preliminary Remarks--General Principles
to be observed in Glass Working--Choice of Apparatus--Tools
and Appliances--Glass 1

II. Easy Examples of Laboratory Glass-Blowing--Cutting and
Sealing Tubes, Tubes for High Temperature
Experiments--Thermometer-Bulbs, Bulbs of Special Glass,
Pipettes, Absorption-Bulbs or Washing Bulbs--Joining Tubes,
Branches, Exhaustion-Branches, Branches of Dissimilar Glass,
Blowing Bulbs, A Thistle Funnel, Cracking and Breaking Glass,
Leading and Direction of Cracks--Use of Glass Rod or Strips
of Window-Glass, Joining Rod, Feet and Supports--Gripping
Devices for use in Corrosive Solutions--The Building up of
Special Forms from Solid Glass 10

III. Internal Seals, Air-Traps, Spray Arresters,
Filter-Pumps--Sprays, Condensers; plain, double surface, and
spherical--Soxhlet Tubes and Fat Extraction Apparatus--Vacuum
Tubes, Electrode Work, Enclosed Thermometers, Alarm
Thermometers ... Recording Thermometers, "Spinning" Glass 32

IV. Glass, its Composition and
Charac