Sand bath (chemistry)

Patent drawing of a sand bath

A sand bath is a laboratory device that can be used to slowly heat chemicals to prevent sudden overheating. Such a sand bath can consist, for example, of a beaker or a metal bowl, which - filled with fine sand - is heated from below, while above a test tube with the chemical to be heated is sunk into the gradually heating sand.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerhard Meyendorf: Laboratory Equipment and Chemicals , People and Knowledge Volkseigener Verlag Berlin, 1965, p. 48.
2. ^ Walter Wittenberger: Chemical laboratory technology. Springer-Verlag, Vienna, New York, 7th edition, 1973, pp. 154–155, ISBN 3-211-81116-8 .