When the wire gauze is at room temperature, you can handle it with your hands. Once the wire gauze has been heated (say, by supporting a crucible over a Bunsen burner on a ring stand), you would need to use a set of tongs to handle the wire gauze (and the crucible and the ring of the ring stand if it needed to be dismantled immediately).
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On a bunsen burner tripod.
It is for the beaker or other container.
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This depends on your specific application !
Actually wire gauze will burn when heated. I think you may instead be asking "Why will a flame not propagate beyond a wire mesh." But the answer to your question is: "A wire gauze WILL burn under appropriate heat."
A flame is not extinguished when a wire gauze is placed on top of it because the flame is still exposed to oxygen. The gauze has holes, through which oxygen can flow. Additionally, oxygen can reach the flame from under the gauze. Consequently, the flame is not extinguished.
it is used for supporting the stand
I think you mean a crucible.See the Related Questions to the left for more information.
because it is used in heating an chemical.
This depends on your specific application !
Since the wire gauze is a good conductor of heat, all the heat is sttracted to the wire gauze
it prevents the heat of the apparatus directly. the circle thing on the wire gauze ensures that the heat is spread everywhere
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Actually wire gauze will burn when heated. I think you may instead be asking "Why will a flame not propagate beyond a wire mesh." But the answer to your question is: "A wire gauze WILL burn under appropriate heat."
the base of an evaporating dish is rounded and will not be stable when placed on a gauze, hence a triangle (tripod) to hold its base better . Also, when you heat the beaker, you put the wire gauze above the triangle(tripod) and the triangle(tripod) above the Bunsen burner.
Generally it is used with a ring stand and a ring. The wire gauze is placed on the rind, a beaker or flask is placed on the gauze, and heat is applied by a Bunsen burner.
The asbestos in the wire gauze i think is a soft type of asbestos coz` some of the asbestos is very thick
It is sort of like a fabric, just made of wire.
Wire gauzes with absorbent center are used in laboratory for heating, for example a beaker with liquid.
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