{"id":1047,"date":"2014-01-21T19:51:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T19:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2014-01-21T19:51:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T19:51:23","slug":"qa-is-it-typically-safe-to-apply-heat-to-a-vacuum-filtration-flask-with-only-the-sidearm-left-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=1047","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Is it typically safe to apply heat to a vacuum filtration flask, with only the sidearm left open?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;margin:5px;font-size:80%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"product design flaws\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2583\/3844499082_0b87d18c35_m.jpg\" width=\"160\"\/><br \/> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7310714@N06\/3844499082\">Wootang01<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Question by Chem Kid<\/i>: Is it typically safe to apply heat to a vacuum filtration flask, with only the sidearm left open?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am considering distilling some 70% (mass) store-bought ethanol with a somewhat makeshift apparatus. The top is stoppered with a rubber stopper, and the sidearm is connected to some tubing which runs down a chilled receiving flask. I&#8217;d like to make sure that there isn&#8217;t some obvious flaw that I&#8217;m overlooking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by Caligula<\/i><br \/>yeah it should work<br \/>\nmaybe the rubber will get attacked by the ethanol vapors over time<br \/>\nmaybe the tubing too depending on its material<\/p>\n<p>but if you manage to get a vacuum filtration flask, why cant you get a proper laboratory condenser<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think? Answer below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Wootang01 Question by Chem Kid: Is it typically safe to apply heat to a vacuum filtration flask, with only the sidearm left open? I am considering distilling some 70% (mass) store-bought ethanol with a somewhat makeshift apparatus. The top is stoppered with a rubber stopper, and the sidearm is connected to some tubing which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2599,2719,2720,2459,1756,679,1361,85,2721,2717,2718],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-flaws","tag-apply","tag-filtration","tag-flask","tag-heat","tag-left","tag-only","tag-open","tag-safe","tag-sidearm","tag-typically","tag-vacuum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}