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Storage Bottle Selection Guide
Corning Gives You More Choices!
This easy selection guide will help you choose the best bottle for storing
reagents and solutions in chemistry and life science laboratories.
Choose your bottle materials:
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PYREX® glass bottles when you need high quality, low expansion, and
temperature resistant glass for chemistry and life science applications.
Click here to see more about the benefits and properties of PYREX®
glassware.
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PYREXPLUS® glass coated glass bottles for products with a tough plastic
coating on the outside and PYREX® glass on the inside for increased safety and
decreased breakage.
Click here to see more about the benefits and properties of PYREXPLUS
glassware.
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Low actinic red PYREX® glass bottles when you need to store light sensitive
reagents and solutions
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Corning® and Costar® polystyrene and polycarbonate plastic
bottles when you need the convenience of high quality disposable bottles.
Choose your bottle styles:
Chemical Resistance Guide
This table is intended to be used as a general guide only. The mechanical
strength, color, appearance and dimensional stability of labware are affected
to varying degrees by both their operating temperatures and chemicals they
contact. Specific operating conditions, especially temperature, will also
affect the chemical resistance.
| Chemical Resistance |
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Recommended |
Not Recommended |
Sterilization |
Thermal
Durability |
| PYREX® Glass Bottles |
Almost all chemicals |
Hydrofluoric acid, hot phosphoric acid, and strong, hot alkali |
Autoclave or dry heat |
490°C* |
| PYREXPLUS® Glass Bottles, PVC coated |
Weak acids, strong alkali, oils, alcohols |
All of the above plus aldehydes, ketones, strong acids, chlorinated solvents
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Autoclave |
110°C |
| Polycarbonate Plastic Bottles |
Weak acids, weak alkali, alcohols |
Strong acids, strong alkali, ketones, aliphatic, aromatic, chlorinated
hydrocarbons |
Autoclave once |
135°C |
| Polystyrene Plastic Bottles |
Weak acids, strong alkali, alcohols |
Strong acids, ketones, aliphatic, aromatic, chlorinated hydrocarbons |
Do not autoclave |
80°C |
| Polypropylene Caps & Rings |
Acids, alkali, solvents, oils alcohols,
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Aromatics, chlorinated hydrocarbons, oxidizing acids |
Autoclave |
140°C |
| Polyethylene Caps |
Acids, alkali, aldehydes, solvents, alcohol, oils |
Aliphatic, aromatic, chlorinated hydrocarbons, oxidizing acids |
Do not autoclave |
121°C |
| PBT Caps and ETFE Rings |
Weak acids, weak alkali, alcohols, esters, ether, benzene, mineral oil |
Strong acids, strong alkali, and ketones |
Autoclave or dry heat |
180°C |
Sterilization time should not exceed 15 minutes at 121°C (250°F).
Drying time should not exceed 15 minutes at 110°C (230°F).
*Thermal upshock or downshock may cause breakage.
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