Author:
Le Pinnet, Paul.
ImprintNew Jersey : World Scientific, [2017]
Descriptionxvi, 438 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Note:Includes index.
Note:1. Glass Technical Data -- 2. Basic Tools and Equipment for Scientific Glassblowing -- 3. Working Environment Regulations-Workshop Layout -- 4. Safe Glass Handling -- 5. Hand Techniques -- 5.1. Cutting of Glass -- Tubing, Rod and Flat -- 5.2. Spear Points -- 5.3. Straight Joins -- 5.4. Unequal Joins -- 5.5. T Pieces 5.6. Y Pieces -- 5.7. 90[degree] Bends -- 5.8. U Bends -- 5.9 Button Seal -- 5.10. Supported Internal Seal -- 5.11. Items 1-9 Repeated in Progressive Larger Diameters -- 5.12. Bulb Blowing -- 5.13. Spiral Winding -- 5.14. Liebig Condenser -- 5.15. Spiral Condenser -- 5.16 Capillary Joins -- 5.17. Repeat-Alternative Techniques -- 5.18. Cones, Sockets, Spherical Joints, Screw Joints, Flat Flanges and Buttress Joints-Their Application-The Use of Mechanical Aids Such as Lathes, Cut-Off Machines, Linisher Belts Diamond and Carborundum Lapping Machines -- 5.19, Flange Making-Dewar Seals, Sinters -- 5.20. Safe Working Pressures (Positive)-Vacuum -- 5.21. Glass to Metal Seals, Recrystallised Alumina to Glass Seals Graded Seals -- 5.22 Various Techniques -- 6. Hand Torch Techniques -- 7. Vacuum Manifold-Vacuum Measurement-Schlenk Lines -- 8. Silvering of Glassware -- 9. Packed Columns -- 10. Round Bottomed Flasks-Various Techniques for Attaching Side Arms11 Standards of Competence -- 12. Drawing on Experience -- 12.1. The Manufacture of a Quartz UV High Temperature Coil Photoreactor -- 12.2. Laser Cutting Quartz Glass -- 12.3. Fit, Form and Function -- 12.3. Fit, Form and Function -- 12.4. Combining Artistic Glass Working Techniques within a Scientific Glassware Context -- 12.5. The Foster Cell -- 12.6. The Design and Construction of his Masterpiece -- 12.7. Variable Temperature Gas Inlet for Surface Science Ultra-High Vacuum Molecular Beam System -- 12.8. Former Apprentice of Seven Years.
