Chemical Lab 1 - Instrument description

Available equipment

Two chemical fume hoods and several acids for chemical etching:

• Bicasa Lite 150

• Bicasa

Analytical and technical balances:

• Kern ABJ-220 4M

• Sartorius PT1500

Magnetic stirrers:

• Velp ARE

• IKA C-MAG HS7

• Velp AREC.X with Vertex Digital Thermoregulator VTF

Membrane vacuum pump

• KNF-Lab N 840.3 FT.18

pH meter:

• Hanna HI8424

Ultrasound bath:

• Bandelin Sonorex Digitec

• SonoSwiss SW6H 

Centrifuge:

• REMI R-10M

Laboratory furnace (up to 1100 °C):

• Carbolite furnace CSF100

Glove box

• Erlab Captair Pyramid

Metallographic polishing machines (disk diameter 200 mm):

• Talete Sipol 300

• Remet LS2

Microscopes:

• Union Versamet-2 metallurgical microscope equipped with a digital video camera

• ES Edmund Scientific microscope with Schott KC 1500 LCD Lamp

LAUE diffractometer for sample orientation (in the X-ray optical laboratory)

• AEGFK60-10 X-rays tube

HeNe laser system for sample alignment:

• CVI Melles Griot 25-LJR-111-230

Bio-imaging analyzer:

• Fujifilm FLA-7000

Precision sectioning saw:

• Bueher IsoMet1000

Hydrogen furnace for sample cleaning and annealing (up to 1100 °C):

• Carbolite furnace

Automatic micropipettes:

• Discovery Comfort 0.5-10 µl

• Discovery Comfort 10-100 µl

• Discovery Comfort 100-1000 µl

• Discovery Comfort 1-5 ml