Hey, we need a chemistry section on this forum. IMO that is.
What do you recommend for reagents of various sorts, particularly acids and bases (around 1N hydroxide or h+, for ex, like HCl)
The ground glass stoppered type look cool but are more expensive than, say, screw top reagent lids. Is there are reason to go with ground glass? I guess it offers exposure to just one material, glass, which is fairly non-reactive.
The down side to ground glass is that it would be a hard vessel to transport or store, not being ‘tip-proof’. And it’s also more expensive.
One more question. I have memory of my college lab assistant telling me that strong hydroxides can react with glass but I generally see that glass is used for NaOH. But I also see recommendations to use HDPE plastic for NaOH, perhaps 1.0 or 0.1N, I’m interested in.
And how about burettes? Can NaOH safely be titrated in a glass burette? I guess it’s a matter of exposure time to the glass and the concentration in use. May not be good to store NaOH in the burette for future titration. Eh?
Cheers,
DJ