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  2. Crucible tongs - Wikipedia

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    Crucible tongs are used most often with crucibles, small ceramic or metal vessels used to heat chemicals to temperatures up to 565.56 degree Celsius. [3] As a crucible will be very hot when heating it in a furnace or a Bunsen burner, one cannot hold the crucible directly. Therefore, crucible tongs come to play a key role when burning, or doing ...

  3. Tongs - Wikipedia

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    Tongs consist a single band of bent metal, as in sugar tongs, most asparagus tongs (which are no longer common) [2] and the like. Sugar tongs are usually silver, with claw-shaped or spoon-shaped ends for serving lump sugar. Asparagus tongs are usually similar but larger, with a band near the head that limits how far the tongs can expand.

  4. Beaker (laboratory equipment) - Wikipedia

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    (B) A tall-form or Berzelius beaker (C) A flat beaker or crystallizer Philips beaker which can be swirled like a conical flask. Standard or "low-form" (A) beakers typically have a height about 1.4 times the diameter. [3] The common low form with a spout was devised by John Joseph Griffin and is therefore sometimes called a Griffin beaker.

  5. Forceps - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Outside biology and medicine, people usually refer to forceps as tweezers, tongs, pliers, clips or clamps. Mechanically, forceps employ the principle of the lever to grasp and apply pressure. Depending on their function, basic surgical forceps can be categorized into the following groups: Non-disposable forceps.

  6. Tweezers - Wikipedia

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    Tweezers are thumb-driven forceps most likely derived from tongs used to grab or hold hot objects since the dawn of recorded history. In a scientific or medical context, they are normally referred to as just "forceps", a name that is used together with other grasping surgical instruments that resemble pliers , pincers and scissors -like clamps .

  7. Category:Laboratory equipment - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Laboratory equipment" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 259 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  8. Draw plate - Wikipedia

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    Tongs at bottom of photo will be used to pull silver wire through the draw plate. Before drawing, the draw plate is held securely in a vise or other fixture. The plate is oriented so that the wider end of a tapered opening can receive a metal wire which is to be pulled through it.

  9. Engineering drawing abbreviations and symbols - Wikipedia

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    The issuance of a drawing from the engineering/design activity to the production activity. In other words, the event when a draft becomes a completed, official document. A stamp on the drawing saying "ISSUED" documents that RTP has occurred. RTV: room-temperature vulcanizing; return to vendor: 1. RTV sealants, a way to seal joints. 2.