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Kugelrohr distillation template
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Distilling bulb inside the glass air-bath oven, receiving bulb outside cooled with ice or dry ice, bulbs turned by the drive under vacuum. University.
What the template shows
- Bulb-to-bulb short-path distillation of small amounts of high-boiling or sensitive liquids under vacuum
- Glass oven (air bath)
- Heats the distilling bulb evenly; raise the temperature slowly
- Distilling bulb
- Sample no more than a third full
- Set dial
- Oven temperature, here 150 °C
- Receiving bulb
- Outside the oven, dipped in ice water (or packed with dry ice) so the vapour condenses at once
- Drive unit
- Turns or rocks the bulbs so the liquid does not bump; the vacuum enters through its hollow shaft
- Pump with a cold trap; evacuate before heating
- Reaction setup
Drawn with 11 shapes – every one editable in MolDraw.
Sources
How to use this template
- Press Edit in MolDraw. The template opens on the canvas of the free MolDraw editor.
- Change anything: move structures, edit atoms and labels, recolour highlights or delete what you do not need.
- Add your own structures, arrows and text next to it, or combine several templates on one page.
- Export the drawing as PNG, SVG or PDF for slides, worksheets, theses and papers.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Kugelrohr distillation template free?
You can preview the Kugelrohr distillation template here and open and edit it in MolDraw for free. Downloading or exporting it is part of MolDraw Pro, together with the other premium templates.
Can I edit the Kugelrohr distillation template?
Yes. It opens as an ordinary MolDraw drawing, so every structure, arrow, label and colour can be changed, and you can add your own content around it.
Is the chemistry checked?
Every structure is checked with RDKit and every curly arrow passes MolDraw’s electron-flow audit. The sources used are listed on this page.
Can I edit the glassware?
Yes. Every piece of glassware is a MolDraw apparatus object: move, resize, recolour the liquid or swap a piece and the joints stay connected.