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StarFish™

StarFish is a modular, general purpose heating and stirring work station designed to fit on all leading
brands of stirring hotplate which accepts a wide range
of standard glassware, including; vials, test tubes, beakers and round-bottomed flasks.

Use standard lab glassware to create a flexible, affordable work staion to suit your needs...

Uses existing laboratory glassware...

StarFish will accept most brands of vials and glassware, allowing best uses of existing lab resources. StarFish is also perfect for accommodating assemblies of more complex glassware such as soxhlet or Dean-Stark

Offers true versatility...

At its simpllest level StarFish can be used to simultaneously stir or heat a varity of vessel styles and sizes; from small 2ml to 250ml round bottom flasks. Yet, the system can also be configured to perform applications such as syntheses, refluxing, extraction, distillation etc in parallel.

StarFish is available in two block formats...
Monoblocks are single blocks with the same size and are ideal for experiments using the same vessel. Polyblocks are smaller segments (5 per StarFish) which can be mixed'n'matched to accomodate any combination of vessels; allowing the use of different vessel types and sizes at the same time.

Innovative clamp and water/gas manifold give added versatitility...
A unique 5-way universal clamp with telescopic arms and adjustable Velcro® straps allows users to hold almost any type of glassware. The unique water/gas distribution manifold allows either cooling or inert gas to be delivered to up to five positions with ease.

Fits on all leading brands of stirring hotplate...

With a choice of base plates, StarFish will fit on most stirring hotplates; including IKA, Heildolph, Eyla and Thermolyne making it the most versatile system available
 

 StarFish applications...

• Stirring...
  StarFish will easily and powerfully stir the contents of vials, tubes, beakers, conical flasks and round bottomed flasks, making it ideal for almost any stirring application including: microbiology, tissue culture, biochemistry, analytical chemistry...
• Heating...
  All StarFish base plates and blocks are made from anodised aluminium, providing excellent heat transfer.
  Precision machining also ensures an excellent contact between the blocks and the base plate. In tests StarFish boiled five 250ml vessels with 150ml of water in each in less than 20 minutes
• Synthesis...
  StarFish can be used for all types of chemical synthesis and will accommodate standard round bottomed flasks from 5ml to 250ml, aswell as both 1 inch and 24mm boiling tubes. Use the versatile 5-way Telescopic Clamp to hold glass condensers of any size and the Water and Gas/Vacuum Distribution Manifolds to distribute cooling water or gas to a maximum of five vessels, without the fuss of glass manifolds, stopcocks and excessive tubing
• Extraction...
  StarFish can be used to replace large, inflexible extraction apparatus. Accommodating any standard round bottomed flasks from 5ml to 250ml, StarFish can easily accept complete glassware assemblies for soxhlet, liquid-liquid, reverse liquid-liquid and reflux extraction methods
• Concentration...
  Use StarFish to rapidly concentrate or evaporate samples. Use standard round bottomed flasks, tubes or vials
• Distillation...
  StarFish can easily be configured for all common types distillation including; binary and multi-component, vacuum, fractional and azeotropic methods
• Digestion...

StarFish offers powerful, rapid heating making it ideal for many digestion methods, either individually or in parallel