Rubber policeman
Rubber policemen
A rubber policeman is a hand-held flexible natural-rubber scraper attached to a glass rod used in chemical laboratories to transfer residues of precipitate or solid on glass surfaces when performing gravimetric analysis.[1] Rubber policemen also come in one-piece flexible plastic versions. They are not the same as rubber scrapers.
Rubber policemen are also used in biological labs, to transfer tissue culture cells from a plate to a suspension for e.g. splitting of cells or the preparation of cell lysates.
Further reading
- Jensen, William B. (2008). "The Origin of the Rubber Policeman". Journal of Chemical Education 85: 776. Bibcode:2008JChEd..85..776J. doi:10.1021/ed085p776.
References
- ↑ Harris p.30
- Harris, Daniel C. "Quantitative Chemical Analysis" (2007), 7th Ed. W.H Freeman and Company NY. ISBN 0-7167-7041-5
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, November 20, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.