Place a small sample of the solid

2. FILLING CAPILLARY
Activity no. 2

TUBES
1. SEALING CAPILLARY
TUBES
pulverized finely on a clean
BOILING AND MELTING POINT watch glass, then collect the solid
into a small mound and push the
DETERMINATION Put one end of a prepared open end of the capillary tube
capillary tube to the edge of a down into the sample. The solid
small hot flame and rotate the may be forced down by dropping
capillary tube slowly so that the the tube (sealed and downward)
DETERMINATION end is sealed. To ensure the through a long length of ordinary
A. capillary tube sealed compactly glass tubing onto the desktop.
Further increments of the sample
and smoothly, you should
MELTING POINT operate it carefully and not
are introduced in the same way
until the material forms a
DETERMINATION make it bended or into a small compact column 3-5 mm high at
ball. the bottom of the tube after
repeated dropping. It is essential
that the matter be packed firmly
and densely into the end of the
tube.

When the apparatus has been arranged, properly

3. ARRANGING
4. TAKING MELTING

ASSEMBLY
POINT

heat the bottom portion of the side arm with Introduce oil bath liquid into a 50ml beaker and
burner. Convection currrents carry heated oil up keep the bath level at the position of the two-
through the side arm and down the maiin shaft of third of the beaker. The cappillary tube
the apparatus for uniform heating. Apply heat at containing the sample is attached to a
a moderately rapid rate until the bath liquid is thermometer by means of a small rubber band.
within 15-20 °C of the melting point. Apply heat the rubber band must be kept well above the
at a moderately rapid rate until the bath adjusted level of the hot oil, or the oil could melt the
so that the temperature rises slowly and at a rubber band and break the band. For accurate
uniform rate (about 1°C per minute). If reading, the sample compound in the capillary
necessary, hold the burner by its base and move it tube is kept clode to and at the level of the
back and forth under the bath. Observe carefully thermometer bulb, which is fully submerged and
the samples in the melting point tube and the centered in the oil bath.
thermometer reading. Record as the observed
melting point the range between the thermometer
reading when sample starts to liquefy and that
when the melt is clear. After the samples have
melted, estinguish the flame and allow the bath
to cool.