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Another question; some hot plate manufacturers say that only glass containers should be placed on their (aluminum) products for fear of damage or electrical shorts. Can you tell me more?
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Sounds a bit odd to me, especially as you have to use an aluminium block to be able to heat round-bottomed glassware, but then a big consideration with anything we bought was always, is it going to be broken when the students inevitably drop/hit/spill dangerous chemicals on it, so I've not really encountered anything "delicate"
TvH
We have mostly IKA RCT Basic models, which are on the cheap end for a decent lab heater-stirrer, but still talking £hundreds here - they're not terribly quick and I wouldn't call them impressively consistent either, even with a probe, they're quite slow to click on and off to maintain temperature, just like a domestic hob.