Consumers Guide to Purchasing Laboratory Glassware

Glass companies do not try to make poor-quality glassware, nor are they intent on selling their mistakes. However, mistakes happen and sometimes the mistakes get by quality control. Regardless, the final quality control person is the customer. 

If you receive poor-quality glassware, by working with your supplier and/or the glassware manufacturer, the problem can be resolved. 

Seeds are like specs of sand in a glass that did not properly melt. They 

Bubbles are trapped air within glass. These are more visual than struc- 

Airlines are bubbles that got stretched during the manufacturing pro- 

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