Thomas Britten, Department of Chemistry, Lancaster University shares a comprehensive evaluation of the Asynt CondenSyn waterless air condenser.
*TEAPOT KLAXON* It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for…and the winner of the Asynt teapot is…
With the school summer holidays upon us we thought we would share some ideas to help entertain the kids, and you never know, maybe help inspire the next generation of chemists! See our selection of fun chemistry experiments for kids.
Take care in the lab or end up like this distinguished gentleman!
With the right ingredients, a “dash” of chemistry, maybe a cold drink, – we can turn up the heat and feel smug that we’re all chemists when we barbecue!
When Don Clark, an experienced analytical chemist at Pfizer in Kent, UK, mentioned his work in chemistry outreach projects we felt it was incredibly important to play our part and make a contribution where we could. Find out more about these programmes…
Have you met our new friend, Walter? He’s really worried about water droplets being wasted and wants everyone to remember that we need to look after him and his kind!
“….. It was decided to test the CondenSyn under relatively tough conditions, as close as possible to those used in a typical laboratory synthesis. A 100 mL round bottomed flask containing 50 mL of a given solvent was heated to a temperature 10% higher than the stated boiling point of the solvent for 24 hours under bubbling nitrogen gas. ….”
We can’t resist a bit of cool chemistry paraphernalia and this unique custom-made chemistry flask / tea pot hybrid that was specified by Dr Ffion Abraham is up for grabs for one lucky Asynt customer!
We haven’t managed to convince Martyn that an in-house ice cream manufacturing station with an Asynt liquid nitrogen generator is a reasonable staff facility, but we did find that the cooling DrySyn SnowStorm Reactor Kit is really wonderful at holding* several of these chilled treasures at a low temperature until we’re ready to eat! We might possibly need more space for sauces, toppings and proper ice cream cornets though…
