BS 658:1989
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Specification for apparatus for the determination of distillation range (including flasks and receivers)
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English
03-30-1990
Foreword
Committees responsible
Specification
Section one. General
1. Scope
2. Definitions
3. Basis of adjustment
Section two. Distillation flasks
4. Designation
5. Sizes
6. Material
7. Dimensions
8. Details of construction
9. Marking
Section three. Receivers
10. Volumetric accuracy
11. Type
12. Series of nominal capacities
13. Limits of volumetric error
14. Material
15. Dimensions
16. Details of construction
17. Graduation and numbering
18. Marking
Section four. Condensers
19. General
20. Type 1, fluid-cooled glass condensers
21. Type 2, air-cooled glass condensers
22. Type 3, metal condensers and cooling baths
Section five. Draught screens
23. General
24. Type A draught screen
25. Type B draught screen
26. Type C draught screen
27. Heat resistant flask support sheets
28. Wire gauze
Section six. Heaters
29. General
30. Gas heaters
Appendix
A. Guidance on the assembly of distillation
apparatus
Tables
1. Dimensions for distillation flasks
2. Limits of error of capacity for receivers
3. Dimensions of distillation receivers
4. Dimensions of straight metal condenser tube
5. External dimensions of cooling bath for straight
metal condenser
Figures
1. Distillation flask
2. Graduation and numbering of Crow receivers
3. Type 1 condenser
4. Type 2 condenser
5. Straight metal condenser in cooling bath
6. Top view of arrangement of curved metal
condenser tube in cooling bath
7. Type A draught screen
8. Type B draught screen
9. Removable shutter for draught screen
10. Type C draught screen
11. Typical assembly of distillation apparatus
with type 1 condenser
12. Position of thermometer in distillation flask
13. Typical assembly for electrically heated
apparatus with curved metal condenser and type A
draught screen
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