HELP ME IDENTIFY LAB GLASS

[drainlife20]

What the heck is this thing exactly?

Looks like two liquid/liquid extractors connected but I can't really figure out how it would work or what it would be useful for.

 

[69ron]

That's what happens when a glass blower makes lab glass while tripping on LSD.

No, really, it's called a DIFKWIITAMJ (that stands for Damned If I Know What It Is Thing A Ma Jig). It's useful for doing something or other.

 

['Coatl]

It DOES look VERY useful!

For what... I haven't the slightest clue...

 

[drainlife20]

I was so about to google difkwiitam, dang. Let's look at the pic in a NSEW compass way. The south side arm looks like just a plain liquid/liquid extractor, and the bulb it connects to in the middle, is probably some sort of weak condenser. Or maybe the whole western half connected to the bulb, is separated from the eastern half and it's some sort of dry ice cold finger with a bulb ET style, and the little limp penis extention on the northwestern part is for co2 to escape. I really don't know and I can only speculate. I just can't think of any reason that an extractor would need an addition that looks like that on the northeast side, it's not a moisture trap. An acid/solvent extractor that separates the two somehow?

It was cool looking so I bought it anyways If I can't do anything with it, it's a base pipe by default. $26 with shipping, I paid $2 less for a good base pipe. I haven't met glass yet that won't melt with a propane torch and patience.

 

[ChemicalEudaemonia]

Saw an ebay ad for it and bought one also 25 bucks seems like a damn good price for w/e the hell it is

It was presumed to be a "soxhlet fractioning column" on the ad. I think maybe it could serve to separate heavier and/or lighter-than-water essential oils (on the right side), or as a way to isolate insoluble compounds.

 

[drainlife20]

I'm thinking maybe the two connectors are used for two different solvents, like maybe if you're using something that would set on fire if it reached the boiling point of water. Or it's probably some sort of specialty device that's only useful for one purpose. I'll have to wait and see I guess. It's a pretty bad picture, but I don't see any sort of water jacket or anything.

 

[Fable]

It looks like it is used for fractional distillation. The lighter stuff distilling out on one side and the heavier on the other.
Solvent separation.
Me thinkey

 

[drainlife20]

Yeah, definitely. Separates the lighter than water(north side) from the heavier than water(south side). It's continuous if you have two hot plates, if only one, it'll separate the two layers, but honestly a sep funnel would be faster. It's very small. I'm not entirely sure what that extension is on the North West side, probably to vacuum seal it all. Alcohol is fully miscible in water right? I mean, if this thing ran with booze in it, it wouldn't separate the two would it?

 

[benzyme]

It looks like it is used for fractional distillation.

that would be my guess.

drainlife, I believe it could to a certain point, around 96% (EtOH) I think. ethanol and water form an azeotrope at around that %age