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2. CBSE Chemistry Basic Laboratory
Techniques
In the chemical laboratory a student is required to carry out from simplest operations
like bending of glass tube, cutting glass tube, boring a cork, to complex process of
analysing sub-stances qualitatively and quantitatively. A general acquaintance with
such operations thus becomes obvious before taking up actual experiments. As most
of these processes involve heating so knowledge of using a burner is essential.
Bunsen Burner
It is a common heating device used in laboratory and consists of following parts:
1. Base, made of cast iron. It keeps the burner in a stable upright position.
2. Gas-inlet tube. It fits horizontally into the side of the base and can be connected
to the gas tap through a rubber tube.
3. Nipple, made of brass rod and has a fine pin-hole running through it. At its lower
end, the nipple is screwed into the base. At the upper end, it carries the burner base.
4. Burner tube, a metallic tube with two opposite air holes near its lower end. It is
screwed to the nipple and carries the air regulator.
5. Air adjusting disc is a metallic ring that loosely fits on the lower end of the burner
tube. It is pierced with two holes that exactly correspond to the two air holes of the
burner tube. It can be rotated to regulate supply of air into the burner tube by partially
or wholly closing the air holes.
Working of Burner
The rubber tubing is connected to the gas tap and the burner is lighted. As the gas
escapes through the nipple, there is a fall of pressure. As a result of which air is
sucked in through the air holes. The mixture of air and combustible gas bums at the
3. top with a flame. Depending upon the quantity of air mixed flame can be luminous or
non-luminous.
Oxidising flame or non-luminous zone is hottest. It is this portion that should be used
for the purpose of heating. Luminous zone is the brightest part of the flame. It is
reducing in character and is used for reducing process, such as in charcoal cavity
test, match stick test and borax bead test of some radicals.
Cutting a Glass Tube
Cutting a glass tube is primarily required for making U-shaped tubes, delivery tubes
and other purposes. Hence a student must know how-to cut-glass tube of required
length for specified purpose without injuring hands. For cutting a glass tubing,
proceed in the following manner:
1. Select a glass tubing free of cracks.
2. Place it on the bench, hold it firmly and make a single deep scratch with triangular
file. Do not apply too much pressure.
3. Place the thumbs on each side of the scratch at equal distances from it. Apply
gentle pressure and give a quick bending motion towards you until it breaks
smoothly (Fig. 2.2).
4. Sometimes, the ends of the tube are not smooth and might bruise your fingers
(Figs. 2.2 and 2.3). These can be further smoothened by rotating the ends in a flame
for 2-3 minutes. The edges will be smoothened (Fig. 2.3). Allow it to cool while
holding in your hand.
4. Precautions
1. Make a single deep scratch at the desired length with one stroke of the file.
2. To avoid injury, hold the glass tube with the help of a thick piece of cloth.
3. Do not heat the end for long time. It may seal the end or make it narrower.
Bending a Glass Tube
For bending a glass tube proceed as follows:
Hold the glass tubing between the thumb and fingers, introduce it lengthwise in the
luminous flame of burner. Keep the tube rotating till it softens.
5. 2. Now apply gentle pressure so that it bends by its own weight. When the desired
angle is formed, remove the tubing from the flame.
3. Place the bent limb on the asbestos sheet. Press it gently so as to make it
coplanar.
Allow the tubing to cool.
Precautions
1. Select a glass tube of sufficient length to keep your hands safe from heat. Do not
try to bend very small glass tubes of the lengths less than 20 cm.
2. While heating, the glass tube should be rotated in order to ensure uniform heating.
3. Never bend the glass tubing by force. By doing so, the tubing may break.
Drawing a Glass Jet
1. Take a delivery tube of required length and diameter. Hold it with both hands and
place it lengthwise in flame (Fig. 2.5).
2. Keep rotating the tube so as to ensure uniform heating, continue heating till it
softens.
3. Take the tubing out of the flame and gently pull the two ends apart. The middle
6. portion is drawn out to a thickness of about 2 mm.
4. Cool and cut the narrow portion with a triangular file and two jets will be obtained.
Finally round the ends of the jets by heating in a flame for a short while.
Precautions
1. While drawing a jet, pull apart the two ends of the red-hot tube slowly so that it
becomes thin uniformly.
Boring a cork
Boring a cork is required for setting up an apparatus for the preparation of gas and
for carrying / out distillation etc. Above all, it is required for fitting up a wash bottle.
For perfect boring of the
cork, the following steps are involved:
1. Softening of the Cork. It is essential as a cork gets hard on keeping. In order to
soften a cork, wet it with water. When it becomes more flexible and does not crack
readily, then press it in a cork-presser which is a mechanical device and if it is not
available, simply press the wetted cork under your shoes after wrapping the cork in a
piece of paper.
2. Selection of the Borer. Choose a borer slightly smaller in diameter than that of
7. the tube to be fitted in the cork. This will ensure tight fitting of the tube.
3. Boring of the Cork. Place the cork on the table with its narrow end upward. Mark
the position of the borer on both the sides of the cork to ensure straight hole. Holding
the cork ‘tightly with left hand, apply force on the border with a twisting motion. Apply
some glycerine to the borer if it is a rubber cork. Glycerine acts as lubricant for the
hard rubber cork. When half of the cork has been bored, take the borer out and
reverse the cork. Start the process of boring taking care that the borer remains
vertical throughout. Remove the borer after the cork has been bored from one face
to the other. Remove the pieces of the cork inside by inserting the needle.
Note. For fitting up a wash bottle, it is necessary to bore two holes in the cork. The
two holes are bored in the same way as done for single hole but with a precaution
that the two holes should not be very close to each other. If the distance is very
small, then the thin cork layer may break.
Fitting the Glass Tube in the Bore. Wet the cork with water. Wet the end of the
tube also with water. Hold the cork in one hand say left hand and tube in the right
hand. It should be noted that the tube should be held closely from the wetted end.
8. Insert the tube into the bore giving a rotatory motion as shown in Fig. 2.9.
Precautions
1. Select bores of diameter slightly smaller in size than that of the tube to be
inserted in the hole.
2. Make a mark on both sides of the cork.
3. To obtain a smooth hole, drill half the hole from one side and another half from the
other side of the cork.
4. Since the rubber is hard, the end of the tube’ to be inserted is usually dipped in
caustic soda solution or glycerine before fitting in the hole.
Wash Bottle
A wash bottle is a container in which distilled water is taken. With the help, of wash
bottle a fine stream of water can be obtained for washing the precipitate and for
other purposes. It has the shape as shown in Fig. 2.10.
9. A flat-bottom flask of 500 ml is taken. Appropriate cork with two bores is fitted into it.
The two tubes, one bent at an angle of 120° and second at 60°, are passed through
the two bores. This is done in a manner so that the upper portions of the two tubes
lie in a straight line as shown in the Fig. 2.10. The upper portion of the 120° angled
tube is held in mouth whereas a jet is fitted to the tube angled at 60°. On blowing out
air with the mouth through one tube, water comes out from the other tube with force
as shown in Fig. 2.11.
Precautions
1. The edges must be rounded off.
2. The longer arm of the tube bent at 60° should be only very slightly above the
bottom of the flask so that it can be used even when it contains only a small amount
of water.
3. All connections must be air tight.
Polythene Wash Bottle
Now-a-days polythene wash bottles are preferably used in the laboratory. It consists
of flexible plastic material bottle, fitted with a plastic tubing having a jet at its outer
end. On squeezing the bottle fine stream of water comes out of the jet. It can be
10. used to give washings or to remove the precipitates from a beaker etc.
Cleaning of Glass Apparatus
In order to get good results, apparatus must be cleaned properly before use.
Sometimes washing with simple water serves the purpose but if the apparatus is
greasy etc. then rinsing with cone. HCl or HNO3is recommended. It is then freely
washed with water under the tap. Chromic acid, prepared by dissolved 5 g of
potassium dichromate in 100 ml of cone. H2S04, is another reagent which can be
used for removing grease and dirt from the apparatus.
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