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burette stand

Chemistry; General chemistry

A burette stand is a vertical stand provided with two screw clamps to keep burette in a vertical position during experiments in a laboratory.

retort stand

Chemistry; General chemistry

A metallic structure for holding laboratory equipment like flasks and glass-ware in the required vertical or tilted position while carrying out experiments.

A silvery white member of the boron group of chemical elements. It has the symbol Al, and its atomic number is 13. It is not soluble in water under normal circumstances. Aluminium is the third most ...

silicon

Chemistry; General chemistry

The most common metalloid. It is a chemical element, which has the symbol Si and atomic number 14. A tetravalent metalloid.

phosphorus

Chemistry; General chemistry

The chemical element that has the symbol P and atomic number 15. A multivalent nonmetal of the nitrogen group.

sulphur

Chemistry; General chemistry

The chemical element with atomic number 16, represented by the symbol S. It is an abundant, multivalent non-metal. Elemental sulfur is a bright yellow crystalline solid.