What you
will need
Injection bottle 5 ml (Liquemin
Roche), water, Leukosilk for labels, tissue paper.
Investigation
* Left: Empty
Liquemin vials for 5 ml Heparin-Natrium are most suitable for your experiments.
Heparin is a substance produced in the liver (greek:
hepar)
preventing the circulating blood from clotting.
Following operations and blood transfusions patients Heparin is injected.
Empty bottles are collected.
* With patience and a strong
fingernail you will learn how to loosen the label at one side and finally
remove it totally.
(In the end
a piece of tissue paper with some drops of nail-polish remover will be
helpful).
* Now the aluminium closure
and the rubber stopper are removed by scissors.
* Make the vial full of
water.
Clean stopper
and closure. Keep them for the following experiments.
* Hold the vial upwards
down: Is the water flowing out?
* Add a drop of washing-up
liquid, repeat the experiment.
* Dry the vial with a wick
made of tissue paper.
* If you do not remove the
paper you have made a micro burner.
* Right: Re-label
containers by Leukosilk and write on it by ball-point pen.
Results
1. You know how to make a micro
burner,
2. a fitting rubber
stopper and a a weight for a
two pan scale.
3. You know how to label
a container.
4. You know a trick how
to distinguish between water and water for washing.