Borosilicate glass has been around since the 1800s, when the son of a window maker invented the process of adding boric oxide to the standard recipe, giving it an unusual strength. We know it as the ...

Flasks and other glassware available for free to labs. All labs are welcome to go through our Green Labs Free Inventory and claim items for their lab. The lab glass and lab supplies have been ...

If you work in a lab, you’ve probably used lab glass made from quartz. But you probably haven’t realized that the reason those test tubes are so durable is exactly what makes them so hard to mold.

Start the school year safely by assigning the Lab Safety STEM Certificate! Designed for middle and high school students, each video introduces essential lab procedures and safety guidelines, including ...

Broken glassware is any laboratory glassware that does not contain or is not contaminated with any radioactive material, more than a trace amount of chemicals, or any biohazardous material. Broken ...

New Delhi: Come July, manufacturers of laboratory glassware will need to comply with new standards set by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) as demand for high-quality scientific equipment grows ...

Stan Sheldon places his blowtorch between two spinning glass tubes. He blows into a mouthpiece that looks like a cigarette perched on his bottom lip. Air enters one end of a tube and puffs up through ...

I doubt you’re working with any reagents or chemicals that pose a threat in residue form, but there are still moments when a triple rinse feels justified. In a former life, I was a lab technician in a ...

Before heading out the door after a day of research at Corning Glass Works in 1913, physicist Jesse T. Littleton grabbed the sawed-off bottom of a round borosilicate glass battery jar. He did so at ...

This guidance document applies only to the disposal of laboratory glassware/material that has not been contaminated with infectious material. For guidance on the disposal of laboratory sharps, please ...