by Sysadmin | Feb 22, 2019 | Useful Information
Total Lab Supplies offer a wide range of hotplates and hotplate/stirrers. The Stuart range is well known in laboratories and they offer some good advice on the operation of these units. Do not use hotplates to heat inflammable liquids. Never lift or carry a hotplate...
by Sysadmin | Dec 6, 2018 | News, Useful Information
Total Lab Supplies closes on Friday 21st December and re-opens on Wednesday 2nd January 2019. There will be no deliveries during this period. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your custom this year, and look forward to continuing our...
by Sysadmin | Sep 3, 2018 | Useful Information
Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals which all have in common their eponymous asbestiform habit: i.e. long (roughly 1:20 aspect ratio), thin fibrous crystals, with each visible fibre composed of millions of microscopic “fibrils”...
by Steve Morris | Jul 20, 2018 | Chemistry, Useful Information
Cæsium is a soft, silvery-gold alkali metal with the symbol Cs and atomic number 55. It has a melting point of 28°C (82°F), which means it will be liquid on a warm summer day, and revert to a solid later that night after the ambient temperature cools. Cæsium is just...
by Sysadmin | Jun 29, 2018 | Useful Information
On July 29th in 1927, the first iron lung (electric respirator) was installed at Bellevue hospital in New York for the post war polio epidemic. The first iron lung was developed at Harvard University by Phillip Drinker and Louis Agassiz Shaw built with two vacuum...
by Sysadmin | Jun 22, 2018 | Useful Information
An ultrasonic cleaner is a cleaning device that uses ultrasound (usually from 20–400 kHz) and an appropriate cleaning solvent (sometimes ordinary tap water) to clean delicate items. The ultrasound can be used with just water, but use of a solvent appropriate for the...
