Above is a reaction I was running in my hood. The balloon is filled with argon gas to keep the reaction under a closed atmosphere. The reaction is in a round bottom flask on a stir plate with a stir bar inside. The picture on the right shows more of my hood. The hood creates a air drag up and out of the lab so that the chemicals do not escape the hood.
Below is a glass column filled with silica gel. The column is used to separate the product reaction out into fractions. Each fraction can then be individually tested to see what the resulting product is.
Above is the solvent machine. It is filled with 5 commonly used solvents. It is a complex machine that can fill a container with the solvent without exposing it to air.
Below is a picture of another hood that has two different vacuum lines set up to run multiple reactions at the same time.
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