Corning Storage Bottles Selection and Use Guide
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Corning® Storage Bottles Selection and Use Guide Contents Glass Screw Cap Storage Bottles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Plastic Screw Cap Storage Bottles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Caps and Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Care and Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Glassware Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Ordering Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Corning® Storage Bottles Corning offers a wide variety of glass and plastic screw cap bottles designed to meet all of your storage needs. This guide will help you select the best bottle to meet these needs. The following table shows the major differences between Corning’s glass and plastic storage bottles. Comparison of Corning Glass and Plastic Storage Bottles PYREX® and PYREXPLUS® Glass Bottles Corning® and Costar® Plastic Bottles Reusable: easy to clean and sterilize; very durable for long life Disposable: Sterile and ready to use; very convenient, no washing or clean up required...

Corning’s round borosilicate glass storage bottles are available clear for general storage (left), with low actinic red stain for light sensitive reagents (middle), or with a tough PVC coating (PYREXPLUS®, right) for extra layer of safety against breakage and spills. PYREX® Round Glass Storage Bottles Q Available with either clear glass for routine storage applications or low actinic red glass for storing light sensitive materials Nine sizes to choose from: 25 mL, 50 mL, 100 mL, 250 mL, 500 mL, 1L, 2L, 5L and 10L 100 mL through 2L sizes can be used with Corning Bottle Top Vacuum Filters....

Corning® Storage Bottles PYREX® wide mouth storage bottles have extra wide neck opening for use with funnels and for easier access and pouring. PYREX Wide Mouth Glass Storage Bottles Q Q Three sizes to choose from: 500 mL, 1L and 2L Neck opening is 5 times larger than on GL45 threaded bottles – much easier to add or remove powders and easier to clean. Plastic Screw Cap Storage Bottles Corning’s disposable polystyrene and polycarbonate storage bottles are designed for researchers who want to store sterile tissue culture media and sera, buffers, biological fluids and other aqueous solutions...

Comparison of Polystyrene and Polycarbonate Storage Bottles Costar® Round Polystyrene Storage Bottles Corning® Easy Grip Round Polystyrene Storage Bottles Corning Square Polycarbonate Storage Bottles Bottle Material Cap Material (Maximum Temperature, C) High Density Polyethylene (121º) High Density Polyethylene (121º) Maximum Recommended Working Temperature (C) Minimum Recommended Working Temperature (C)* Use with Corning Vacuum Filters Available sizes: will reduce mechanical strength. * Bottle performance in freezers depends on both the temperature and contents in the bottle. It is...

Corning® Storage Bottles Corning offers reusable PBT septum caps for storage bottles (not available for wide mouth bottles) with a choice of silicone septa or PTFE faced silicone septa. The replaceable septa are ordered separately. Dispensing caps (Corning Cat. No. 401654) with two 15.4 cm stainless steel tube ports can easily convert storage bottles with GL45 threads for use in automated cell culture or assay systems requiring aseptic liquid dispensing or collection. These reusable caps can be used on all Corning glass and plastic bottles with 45 mm diameter necks. Care and Use Cleaning...

Glassware Safety Precautions These products are intended for use by persons knowledgeable in safe laboratory practices. Failure can result from surface damage, improper pressure or temperature, or use with incompatible chemicals. WARNING: To avoid breakage and possible injury, Corning recommends the following: Q Q Q Q Do not heat glassware that is scratched, etched, cracked or nicked, it will be prone to breakage. Do not use any implement inside a glass vessel that can scratch or chip the glass. Do not use PYREX® or PYREXPLUS® bottles over direct heat such as a flame or on a hot plate. Do...

Corning® Storage Bottles Physical properties of Corning® Glass and Plastic Bottles CHEMICAL RESISTANCE PYREX® Glass Glass Bottles, Plastic Bottles Plastic Bottles Weak acids, strong alkali, oils, Weak acids, weak alkali, alcohols Weak acids, strong alkali, alcohols phosphoric acid, strong, hot alkali, aldehydes, ketones, strong acids, and chlorinated Strong acids, strong alkali, ketones, aliphatic, aromatic Strong acids, ketones, chlorinated hydrocarbons Caps & Rings Acids, alkali, solvents, oils alcohols hydrocarbons, oxidizing acids Polyethylene Acids, alkali, aldehydes, solvents, Caps...

Ordering Information (continued) 1397 CIS 80 Wide Mouth Bottle Approx. Grad. Grad. Capacity Thread Diameter x Range Interval Oty/ Cat. No. (mL)Size Height (mm) (mL)(mL)~Cs Approx. Grad. Grad. Capacity Thread Diameter x Range Interval Oty/ Capacity Thread Approx. Diameter Grad. Range Grad. Interval Oty/ Plastic Storage Bottles Cat. No. (mL) Shape Bottle Material (mm) Bag Cs

Corning® Storage Bottles Ordering Information (continued) Cat. No Description Color Material Fits Seal Oty/Cs 1395-25HTSC Open Top Cap Red PBT GL25 Requires Septa 10 1395-25SS Silicone Septa White Silicone GL25 Requires Cap 10 1395-25TS PTFE Faced White Silicone/ GL25 Requires Cap 10 Silicone Septa PTFE 1395-32LTC Cap Orange PP GL32 Plug Seal 20 1395-32HTSC Open Top Cap Red PBT GL32 Requires Septa 10 1395-32SS Silicone Septa White Silicone GL32 Requires Cap 10 1395-32TS PTFE Faced White Silicone/ GL32 Requires Cap 10 Silicone Septa PTFE 1395-32LTR Pouring Ring Clear PP GL32 NA 50 1395-45LTC...

Bottle Top Vacuum Filters ► Individually packaged, sterile and certified nonpyrogenic ► Adaptors are color coded by membrane type ► Fit most glass and plastic media storage bottles with GL45 caps ► Do not use on square glass bottles or glass botdes larger than 2L Volume Neck Size Pore Size Color-Coded Cat. No. Membrane (mL) (mm) (urn) Adapter Oty/Cs 150 mL Capacity, 50 mm Diameter Membrane 500 mL Capacity, 70 mm Diameter Membrane 1,000 mL Capacity, 90 mm Diameter Membrane PES = Polyethersulfone, CA = Cellulose Acetate, CN = Cellulose Nitrate, NY = Nylon.