Laboratory Uses for Discarded Fluorescent Light Tubes MARY CARLISLE BLACKMON Hortsvilk High School, Hnrtsuille, South Carolinn
DISCARDED fluorescent tubes which we so often see amid the rubbish of trash containers may be made to serve many useful purposes in the laboratory. When "
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obtained. These tubes are made from a good quality of well-annealed pyrex glass and therefore can be cut, firepolished, and made to serve a variety of laboratory needs where large size glass tubing is required.
Among the various uses that such tubing might find in a laboratory we suggest the following:
3. Kundt's Dust Tube. 4. Uncut, the tubes may be used to illustrate conduction in vacuum and fluorescence. 5. I, hands of a glass blower the tubes may be fashioned into a variety of laboratory devices.
