Ethanol Lamp | What is this thing?!

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What is this thing?!
Trying to document grad school one RU-vid video at a time, from lab equipment to genetics lessons to interviews with other students! Each week is a new view into life as a grad student, and the rollercoaster that is getting a PhD.
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@tttITA10 8 лет назад

Today I learned that you can use a flame lamp to sterelize air. Cool, this is really new for me. Loved it.

@ryPish 8 лет назад

Love this style of videos! Keep em coming :3

@mikeklaene4359 8 лет назад

Being MUCH older than are you, I have used them in the past. Except we called them alcohol lamps. Your building is probably not up to code in an earthquake zone resulting in the rule against gas lines.

@Trebor8586 8 лет назад

Did not know about the updraft for a clean air bubble. That is neat!!!

@BarbarianGod 8 лет назад

Are they ever used to heat glassware?

@jadenephrite Год назад

The alcohol lamp can use as fuel either ethanol or methanol. The facets on the side of the glass bottle is to allow it to sit tilted on a table top. Thus as the alcohol fuel level lowers from being burned at the top of the wick, then the bottle can be tilted to keep the wick continually saturated with alcohol.

@cwez11 4 месяца назад

When I was a kid, our county health nurse had one on her desk for sterilizing the tools she used in her everyday job. Mrs. Bridwell. I'll never forget her. To this day, I strongly associate alcohol burners with the health profession.

@terrylecroix4745 8 лет назад

Love this old school stuff. Keep it up.

@jackstoneberg6381 8 лет назад

Cool, I honestly thought it was just a 19'th century Bunsen burner. Even more cool, is that "old" tech still has it's uses. Good to know, thanks for this and all the other videos. :D

@skinnyjohnsen 8 лет назад

Nice memories..: A clumsy guy in my class, we were 12, knocked one off the table and set the floor on fire ;-)

@Svnipni 8 лет назад

Awesome :) I'm a bit jealous now though. We just use the gas burners

@ltericdavis2237 8 лет назад

+Semmeh You don't have to worry about refilling though.

@guessguess2641 6 лет назад

Witam , można nalać do lampy naftowej etanol zamiast nafty?

@anonymousmc7727 Год назад

I got a pretty rare one at the thrift….😊

@aimanapril24 8 лет назад

cool! learnt a new thing today ! keep up the good work !

@Dixavd 8 лет назад

The thing at 0:28 about the flame causing an up draft and therefore pulling containments in air upwards sounds like a neat game mechanic. If I end up seriously going into game development, I might use it someday.

@alexstone691 3 года назад

Did you use it?

@OdditGaming 8 лет назад

What would you use to contaminate the opening of a bottle (like where the cap of the bottle would normally go over, no idea how to discribe it othewise) because when i did it in the lab to contaminate the top of a test tube before pipetting from it i used the blue flame of a bunser burner. Wouldn't you get soot on your bottle if you used this?

@crownofall 6 лет назад

Oh hell, gas is dangerous so here is a Molotov cocktail instead. Unfortunately I know me too well it would have to be glued to the table... Or else

@supersmashsam 8 лет назад

I remember, the few times I was in a bio lab, they had those fancy electric bunsen burners. Since I couldn't figure how to program the timer, I had to start the burner every 5 minutes, which was annoying. Still pretty cool nonetheless!

@mojonacho 8 лет назад

If you're sciencing shipped on a whaler, I think that the next video must be dedicated to sea shanties.

@hubalek44 8 лет назад

We had those at high school and I'm only freshman at college :D #CzechRepublic

@justanch 8 лет назад

Yo Ho and a bottle of ethanol! (Pirate ship science sounds awesome)

@paulojunior3037 4 года назад

Isso apaga rápido, gostei mais de você do que da lamparina 😔

@SodiumInteresting 4 года назад

what can you burn in it. im making my own alchohol stove and im trying to find some cheap type of alcohol to burn in it but i hear isopropyl creates smoke

@MarvinClarence 3 года назад

Rubbing alcohol may suffice. Use at least 70% but >90% is recommended. Even some hand sanitisers can do the trick

@jackboyd147 4 года назад

cant got ethanol have tried did get the bottle

@RickyLi 8 лет назад

Why that and not a butane bunsen burner? If they're good enough for creme brulee... j/k Still that old timey feel is cool.

@Doctrina_Stabilitas 8 лет назад

+Ricky Li ethanol is cheap

@alexstone691 3 года назад

How long does it last?

@mabdub 4 года назад

Would you please tell me what kind of fuel you use in you glass Bunsen burner.

@GRosa 4 года назад

0:20 Ethanol (aka ethyl alcohol)

@ricarleite 8 лет назад

Looks dangerous...

@MorRobots 8 лет назад

why not use temporary clean environments with positive pressure, similar to what hard drive repair people use?

@AlexDainisPhD 8 лет назад

+MorRobots I definitely use biological safety cabinets when doing cell culture, but for stuff like bacterial cultures it is both unnecessary and a risk to the cleanliness of the space, ie Even though we clean/UV it, doing bringing bacterial work into our tissue culture hood which has the express purpose of preventing bacterial contamination would be a HUGE no-no and would make the people who do tissue culture (me) very very unhappy.

@MorRobots 8 лет назад

I was thinking more along the lines of the small units people use that are some times home brewed out of left over containers and 12v cooling fans with micron filters lol

@AlexDainisPhD 8 лет назад

Ahhhh, that makes more sense! Still pretty unnecessary when a simple flame will do the job too though.

@MorRobots 8 лет назад

+Alex Dainis one can burn the building down. the other can't.... I seen an incentive lol

@AlexDainisPhD 8 лет назад

Hah! Fair point.

@elliottmcollins 8 лет назад

Wait, is the main use of a Bunsen burner?

@C0nc0rdance 8 лет назад

+Elliott Collins You don't see the burners used for heating things much anymore. Most people use electric hotplates with built-in stirrers that spin a magnetic bar in the solution, or for a lot of things, commercial microwave ovens. In every molecular biology lab, you will find a commercial microwave filled with boiled-over agarose residue... no-one wants to clean it, and no-one ever will. There are still some things that the burner is still best at: sterile fields, sterilizing loops, and heat-fixing slides for microscopy.

@science_mbg 8 лет назад

I dont want either because a lot of people are careless and they would contaminate with EtBr around that place. So make your job and get away from there :D