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George Bernard Shaw once described Britain and America as being 'two countries divided by a common language', a statement as true in chemistry as in other realms. A few years ago, I introduced a simple analytical titration into our first year course. When the experiment ran for the first time, the unexpected happened. With solutions made up and burettes filled, all activity in the lab ceased. The students came up to me and said: 'What's an Erlenmeyer flask?' 'Oh..!', said a student when I picked one up, 'You mean a conical flask.'
It is indeed one of those bits of glassware that everyone recognises. Hold one of them up while wearing a lab coat and you are The Scientist (do the same wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt and you'll be arrested as a crystal meth maker). It appears on countless logos and advertisements. To those educated, as I was, in North America, it's an ..Read More
