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The Glove Box
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Leonard Rorrer works in a glove box. |
The Chemistry Department operates and maintains two state of the art Vacuum Atmospheres Nexus One inert atmosphere glove boxes. Each glove box has moisture and oxygen sensors, variable speed dry train blowers, automatic computer controlled valve switching, low temperature freezer, cold well, atmosphere cooling unit, antechamber and mini antechamber, vacuum port, and automatic regeneration control. The boxes are used extensively for moisture and oxygen sensitive manipulations by research students in the France group and Uffelman group. The boxes are also used heavily by the students in the Winter term junior level laboratory course, Chem 252. The nitrogen atmosphere in the boxes is maintained at less than 1 ppm water and less than 1 ppm oxygen. |
