Volumetric & glassware
Burette & Volumetric Glassware
Glass apparatus made to contain or deliver accurately known volumes: burettes, volumetric flasks, bulb pipettes and graduated pipettes. The backbone of titrations, standard preparation and dilutions.
- Pharmaceutical
- Chemicals
- Universities
- Food & beverage
- Environmental
TROUBLESHOOTING
Common problems, causes and fixes
Drops cling to the inside wall
Likely causes
- • Grease or dirt on the glass
What to do
- • Clean with laboratory detergent or a suitable cleaning solution and rinse well
Burette reading drifts with stopcock closed
Likely causes
- • Leaking stopcock
What to do
- • Tighten or replace the stopcock
Air bubble in the tip changes during titration
Likely causes
- • Tip not cleared before setting zero
What to do
- • Run titrant through the tip before setting zero
Gravimetric check fails
Likely causes
- • Chipped tip
- • Wrong delivery or waiting time
- • Temperature not recorded or wrong Z factor
What to do
- • Withdraw chipped glassware
- • Follow the delivery time marked
- • Measure water temperature and use the correct Z factor
In LimsPulse · Calibration Management
Keep every Burette & glassware in control: usage logs, calibration and maintenance schedules, and automatic blocking of overdue instruments.