Heating mantles and magnetic stirrers
Even heating and stirring are the basis for preparing solutions, extractions and distillations. Choose from heating mantles for flasks of various volumes, magnetic stirrers with or without a hotplate, digital models with temperature control and sets of stir bars.
Heating mantles and magnetic stirrers
A round-bottom flask sits snugly in a heating mantle, which heats it evenly over its entire surface, with no open flame and no risk of local hot spots. Mantles are made for a specific flask volume, such as 250 ml, 500 ml or 1 l, and many have built-in magnetic stirring for distillation and reflux.
A magnetic stirrer spins the stir bar inside the vessel using a rotating magnet, mixing the solution without an immersed propeller and without risk of contamination. The plate on combination models reaches temperatures of up to several hundred degrees, and a digital display with a temperature probe helps you hold the set value precisely.
Every stirrer pairs with PTFE-coated stir bars in various lengths, which resist chemicals and are easy to clean. When working with flammable liquids, choose mantles and plates with overheat protection and never leave them switched on unattended.