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A retort stand, sometimes called a ring stand, is a piece of scientific equipments, to which clamps can be attached to hold test tubes and other equipment such as burettes which are most often used in titration experiments. Retort stand is one of the general lab equipments or metalwares being used to help with holding onto the bench equipment and bench glassware. It is also known as the community equipment that shouldn't be placed in the lab drawers of workbench. Retort stand can be attached with the metalwares such as ring clamps, versatile clamps, 3-prongs clamp, burette clamps. Retort stand can be holding the glasswares such as test tubes, flasks, or burettes. Some of the glasswares are required to be held by the metal clamps. Retort stand comes into two pieces of metalwares, which are the retort metallic base and retort steel rod.
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Structure
The base size can be 200 x 125 mm along with a rod of 600 x 12.5 mm for the model of MW-13. And for the model of MW-14, the base will be 250 x 160 mm along with the rod size that will be 750 x 12.5 mm. The bases have the hole tapped of 10 mm x 1.5 mm. The rod itself, to which clamps may be attached with bosses, is typically 1.5 m high and is therefore sufficient for most experiments and to fit inside fume hoods and glove boxes. If a taller rod is required, the solid base is usually replaced by three metal legs for stability when supporting larger apparatus, such as extremely large tubes, bulk chemical bottles etc. The height can be adjusted by moving the attached point of the stand and the test tube. The base is heavy so that the centre of gravity is reduced and there is more stability.
Usages
It is used for carrying out distillation experiments which includes distillation of acids. It is also used in filtering. The sits are usually made of a chemically impervious metal and may be covered with aluminium foil to further protect the base, on which may sit a hot plate, magnetic stirrer, heating mantle, or some other apparatus.
Experiments
It could come along with the rings or clamps. However, it can be varied depending on the purposes of the labs that the scientists perform on the experiments. Retort stand/ ring stand will be used within the chemistry laboratory for majority of the time. Some of the labs that will be using retort stand included