Microscale Chemistry Experimentation
with syringes, packings and a scale
A contribution to  Quality Initiative SINUS
from Lauterbach, Cairo, Graz, Halmstad, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Hangzhou (China)

Liquemin-ampouls as burners, distillation sand test tubes

Experimentation with Liquemin ampouls was successfully tested with kindergarten children in Egypt, in Turkey and in Israel, with highschool students in my Lauterbach "Gymnasium", in a summer school and in a workshop with teamers of SINUS.
The use of Liquemin bottles might cause safety concerns and criticism. A letter of the parmaceutical factory Roche tells that there are no objections to a non-medical reuse of these ampouls.
Injection bottles and infusions bottles with fitting stoppers and metal caps are also available "first hand".

Station 1 . .Make a micro-spirit burner
Station 2 .. Test micro-spirit burner: Melting of a Liquemin metal closure, temperature of the flame
Station 3 .. Reuse three Liquemin bottles:  Distillation of red wine
Station 4 .. Bottles as test tubes: Colours of red cabbage extract
Station 5 .. Wellplate 6 a better alternative: Colours of red cabbage extract



Station 6 . .Electric conductivity 1: Test the quality of distillation from Station 2
Station 7 .. Electric conductivity  2: Measure the conductivities of different water samples

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