Test Tube

- aka culture tube or sample tube – bakit? because test tube are only used for testing chemicals,
mixing boiling and observing kumbaga, sample lang talaga. Culture- kase ginagamit din siya na
home for microorganisms pag gusto ng mga taong palakihin sila.
- It is a common piece of laboratory glassware
- Finger like length (u shaped bottom) of glass or clear plastic tubing, has a open top. It's essentially
a cylinder-like piece of equipment with one open end. There are many reasons for why test tubes
are made out of glass or special types of plastic. That's because they possess some advantageous
characteristics, such as being leak proof (so long as the tube doesn't break, of course).
Glass and special plastic test tubes are also non-reactive. Many metals react with all sorts of
chemicals in either dangerous ways or in ways that would ruin an experiment or sample. Test
tubes are also clear. It's kind of hard to see what you're doing with an experiment if the tube is
made out of wood, metal, or stone, isn't it?s

- Test tubes are for general chemical work usually made from glass, for better resistance to heat and
corrosive chemicals – dangerous
- made from expansion resistant glasses- borosilicate glass (fused quartz) -glass consisting of silica
in amorphous form. Can withstand high temperature up to several hundred Celsius
- ranging from 10-20 mm wide and 50-200 mm long
- top features a flared lip- to aid pouring out the contents
- usually flat bottom, round bottom, conical bottom
- spherical bottom and vertical sides reduces mass loss when pouring
- Widely used to hold, mix, or heat small quantities of solid or liquid chemicals. make them easier to
clean, and allow convenient monitoring of the contents. The long, narrow neck slows down the
spreading of vapours and gases to the environment.
- Convenient containers for heating small amounts of liquids and soids w/ use of Bunsen burner or
alcohol lamp, held by its neck with a clamp or tongs by tilting the tube. The bottom can be heated
to hundred degrees in the flame while neck remains relatively cool, possibly allowing vapors to
condense on its walls-gas to liquid
- Rubber stopper for temporary storage of chemical or biological samples.
- Bioscience- for handling and culturing all kinds of living organisms; bacteria, molds, seedings,
plant cuttings
- Culture tubes clear plastic (polystyrene or polypyrene) often discarded after use
- Plastic test tubes with a screw top cap are often called “falcon tubes”
- Sterile test tube with air removed, called vacutainers are used to collect and hold samples of
physiological fluids; blood, urine (commonly sealed with a rubber stopper)
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- Widely used by chemist to handle chemicals (also biosciences and clinical medicine)
- The long narrow neck slows down the spreading of gases to the environment
- Convenient for heating small amount of solids and liquids
- A test tube with a stopper is often used for temporary storage
- Do not give accurate measurements but give precise measurements- Accuracy refers to the
closeness of a measured value to a standard or known value. Precise- exact
- also known as culture tube or sample tube
- used to mix, heat or store substances
- Consisting a finger- like length of glass or clear plastic tubing
- Usually made from glass; expansion resistant glasses- borosilicate glass
- Usually flat bottom, round bottom and conical bottom
- Test tubes are sometimes put to casual uses outside of lab environments, e.g. as flower vases,
glassware for certain weak shots, or containers for spices.-add info