
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
2" flywheel in well made metal frame. The trick is the same as it has been for 100 years. Wind the string through the spindle, pull it firmly to set the flywheel spinning, and perform effortless balancing magic on pencil tips, string tightropes, and the like. We tend to forget that bicycles and aircraft navigation both rely heavily on gyroscopic principles. It's never too early to tell the kids. Besides, it's fun.
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3804 TEDCO® METAL GYROSCOPE |
A pair of shades in assorted colors with the outer portion of each lens half silvered on the eyeball side. Glance left or right and see behind you. Cool undercover item for the younger sleuth or the dirty old man on the beach who doesn't want to be discovered. Whatever your motive, you need a pair now.
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90338 REARVIEW GLASSES |
Chemically treated paper strips to test for acid or base (alkaline) solutions. Use the blue for acids, the red for bases. The more sophisticated pH test paper strip indicates pH from 1 (bright red) to 14 (dark brown). Values in between can be read by comparing with a color chart that comes with the strips. All have (100) strips of test paper per vial.
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88217 BLUE LITMUS PAPER | |
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88219 HYDRION PH PAPER | |
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88218 RED LITMUS PAPER |
Three-legged steel stands for cooking above burners in the lab. The unit stands 6" tall with a 2–1/4" ID (3–1/4" OD) burner ring. Legs are 1/4" wide chromed steel and angle outward slightly. Burner rings have a grey baked enamel finish. Legs screw into burner rings and have adjusting nuts. Sturdy construction.
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89735 BURNER STAND, 6" |
Rejoice, we have finally found a source of reasonably priced borosilicate lab glassware. This is the kind of glass in the trade marked Pyrex(tm) and Kimax(tm) labware. The stuff you can put right over the flame of the Bunsen burner, or directly onto the hot plate. This stuff is imported from China, and is considered student grade, which is good enough for anything but the most exotic applications. We have beakers, test tubes, graduated cylinders and flasks. Compare the prices below and you will see that they are around half the U.S. equivalent. Call us for larger quantity prices.
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88987 BEAKER, 1000ML | |
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92611 BEAKER, 2000ML | |
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88985 BEAKER, 250ML | |
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88984 BEAKER, 50ML | |
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88986 BEAKER, 600ML | |
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88993 ERLEN FLASK, 500ML | |
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88992 ERLEN. FLASK, 250ML | |
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88991 ERLEN. FLASK, 50 ML | |
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88989 GRADUATED CYL. 100ML | |
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88988 GRADUATED CYL. 10ML | |
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88990 GRADUATED CYL. 250ML | |
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88995 TEST TUBE, 13X100MM | |
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88996 TEST TUBE, 16X150MM | |
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88997 TEST TUBE, 20X150MM | |
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92614 TEST TUBE, 25X150MM |
Plastic safety goggles with a clear, fairly hard single pane front. The wrap around is clear The top and sides have dozens of little holes for ventilation and the whole is big enough to fit over regular glasses comfortably. An elastic strap holds them in place. Made in China.
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20647 SAFETY GOGGLES |
Porcelain mortars and pestles. Great heavy duty mortars, with sides that are easily 5/16" thick on the smaller ones, and up to 1/2" on the larger. The mortars are glazed outside, but rough inside, the better to grind, and have a pouring lip. The business ends of the pestles are unglazed, while the shafts are glazed. Very functional, very good looking!! So grind your own spices or lab concoctions as you prefer. You get a mortar and pestle as a single order.
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88314 MORT & PEST, 130ML | 4" OD x 1-3/4" | 4-3/4" | |
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88909 MORT & PEST, 600ML | 6-1/2" OD x 2-15/16" | 6-3/16" |
AKA hand boiler. An exotic bit of hand blown glass with a bulb at top and bottom connected by some zippy tubing that spirals, loops, and/or jogs. In the closed system is some colored liquid (methyl chloride) that is very light. Hold the lower bulb in you hand and as the air in the system is warmed it pushes the fluid through the loops to the upper chamber. When all the liquid is pushed out of the lower bulb, expanding air will bubble through the tubing making it appear that the liquid is boiling. WARNING! The glass is fragile and the liquid is nasty. If you drop the thing on e.g. the kitchen tile, it will eat the finish off the tile and the stain in the liquid will permanently stain the floor. So don't let kids handle this item unsupervised. About 7" tall, it is a favorite in our stores.
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6199 LOVE METER |
An easy way to light up the kids' eyes! Teach them to wire a simple circuit with our basic components. The knife switch is mounted on a plastic base. The miniature plastic socket holds a standard flashlight bulb with a 14 mm dia screw base. We pack 6 volt and 3 volt round bulbs, or 1.5 volt bell-shaped bulbs, (5) to a package.(Bulbs are rated slightly higher to prevent them from burning out.) Or hook up the black plastic and metal 2" x 4-1/4" telegraph key with brass contacts and (2) terminal posts with nuts. Our blue-plastic holder for (1) "D" battery has a small tab at each end to hook a lead to, and a 1/8" square mounting hole at each corner. You add the mounting surface and the know-how. Actual bulb voltage listed in parenthesis.
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91160 1.5 VOLT BULBS (2.5 V) | |
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91159 3 VOLT BULBS (3.8V) | |
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91158 6 VOLT BULBS (6.3V) | |
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38806 KNIFE SWITCH, DOUBLE POLE DOUBLE THROW | |
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38808 KNIFE SWITCH, DOUBLE POLE SINGLE THROW | |
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38805 KNIFE SWITCH, SINGLE POLE SINGLE THROW | |
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91769P1 SINGLE "D" BATTERY HOLDER | |
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38811P1 SOCKET | |
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91813 TELEGRAPH KEY |
Affordable, adaptable lab equipment for serious scientists with laughable budgets. The basic stand is heavy black metal 8" long x 5" wide x 1" high with a 19-1/2" x 3/8" dia support rod screwed into it. Position a beaker or bunsen burner on the stand and build the configuration you need above it. Both of the Burette clamps and the ring attach to the rod with thumbscrew clamps. The Burette clamps have wing nuts so they can be adjusted to any angle. The single clamp extends 4" from the rod, with rounded, uncoated, adjustable metal jaws with spring tension and a wing nut. The double clamp like it has rubber-coated jaws. The 3" metal support ring holds the 6" x 6" heavy-gauge steel-mesh burner screen with crimped edges. Nice, solid equipment at a rare price.
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88192 3" SUPPORT RING | |
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91831 6" X 6" SCREEN | |
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88597 DOUBLE CLAMP | |
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88195 LAB STAND | |
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88186 SINGLE CLAMP |
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
From France comes this fun mechanical plastic bird that really flies by flapping its wings. It is about 8" long and has a wingspan of 16" tip to tip. Snap the wings in place, wind up the rubberband drive and toss it gently into the air on its maiden flight. It flies up to fifty yards with a satisfying fluttering sound. Comes with a spare rubberband drive mechanism.
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88566 FLYING BIRD TOY |
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