Indiana University Bloomington

 

Glass Shop

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Both routine and unique glassware are fabricated in the Glass Shop, staffed by a professional glassblower. Specialized equipment, including two lathes, drills, saws, and glass grinding and polishing equipment is available. Instruction in the art of glassworking is also available.

Glassblower Don Garvin working with one of the two glassblowing lathes in the Chemistry Glassblowing Shop.

Examples of apparatus fabricated in the shop include:

  • Low temperature cooling system for crystallography
  • Electrochemical cells
  • Nebulizers used in analytical chemistry research
 
Indiana University

Indiana University Department of Chemistry 800 E. Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN 47405-7102 Phone: (812) 855-9043 Fax: (812) 855-8300