Plastic bottles (narrow & wide mouth)

LDPE is soft and squeezable, good for wash bottles and dispensing, as with the wide-mouth bottle, LDPE, GL 45, 500 ml, 1 piece. HDPE is stiffer and suits reagent storage and transport, such as the wide-neck rectangular bottle, HDPE, amber, 250 ml, 12 pieces. PP is rigid and often autoclavable, as with the laboratory bottle, PP, 500 ml, GL 45, 6 pieces. PET and PETG are crystal clear for media and sterile storage but are not autoclavable. Always check autoclavability on the product page, because it differs per bottle.

Choose sterile bottles for media, cell culture and sampling where contamination matters. Some are gamma-sterilised with a stated sterility assurance level (SAL) of 10⁻⁶, such as the square PETG media bottles with closure, sterile; the product page also tells you whether a bottle is pyrogen-free. Sterile PETG bottles are single-use and cannot be autoclaved. For reagents and buffers, non-sterile bottles are enough, and autoclavable ones can be sterilised yourself, for example the large narrow-mouth amber bottles, autoclavable, 6 pieces. Questions: sales@luminixhealth.com.

Square bottles use shelf, fridge and incubator space better and are easier to grip, such as the square PETG media bottle, 250 ml, sterile, 24 pieces. Round bottles are easier to clean and pour from evenly. A narrow neck suits liquids: it pours precisely and limits evaporation. A wide neck makes it easier to fill or take out powders, pastes and solid samples, and to clean the inside, as with the wide-mouth bottle, LDPE, GL 45, 500 ml. Choose the neck by what goes in and how you take it out. More in plastic bottles.

Check whether a cap is included: the product title or data says so. Some bottles come with a closure, such as the wide-mouth amber HDPE bottles with closure. Others are sold without, like the HDPE bottle with PP28 neck, 250 ml, 510 pieces, which needs PP28 screw caps ordered separately. The thread size, for example GL 45 or PP28, must match exactly. Replacement and special caps, including caps with pouring rings or septa, are in screw caps and closures. Unsure about a thread? Ask sales@luminixhealth.com.

A plastic bottle is polyethylene, polypropylene or a fluoropolymer, narrow-mouth for pouring or wide-mouth for powders. It is the choice when the bottle must not shatter, and it is the wrong choice for solvents that swell the plastic.

A laboratory bottle is a closed container with a stated volume and a neck that takes a cap, a stopper or a dispenser. Borosilicate glass is the choice when the liquid is a solvent, or when the bottle will be heated or autoclaved. Polyethylene and polypropylene are the choice when the bottle must not shatter, or when hydrofluoric acid would attack glass. A narrow mouth pours. A wide mouth is for powders and for reaching the bottom. Laboratory ware of this kind is indexed under ISO laboratory glassware. Traceable volume sits with the BIPM and NIST Physical Measurement.

This shelf belongs to Bottles & containers, inside Labware. Luminix Health distributes this range for laboratory use.

The neighbouring shelves are Laboratory glass bottles, Sample containers & jars, Canisters & jerrycans, Wash bottles and Bottle accessories (pouring rings, dispensers, caps). The category above this shelf is Bottles & containers.

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