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Laboratory glassware

I've listed this article for peer review because a solid introduction to laboratory glassware is extremely useful to anyone who either works or is learning science.

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Thanks, Agriculturist50 (talk) 01:04, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

@Agriculturist50: The lead needs to summarize more. It doesn't explain what glassware as used for, which is one of the basic things you'd expect. Lot more cites are needed. Perhaps from a book on glassware. The scope of article needs to be clear, but I'd atleast expect some summary in the body about how glassware is useful and what it is used for. The safety section is mostly irrelevant as we're not a safety guide. Galobtter (talk) 13:57, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

@Galobtter: Thanks for looking over the article. I am in the process of expanding the work using more citations.

The lead is tricky because laboratory glassware is used for so many different tasks in labs and there are so many different types of glassware it is mind boggling. The scope has seemed to have crept a good bit because of differing contributions. Students, educators, glass blowers, professors, scientists, medical practitioners, and vendors all come at laboratory glassware from a different angle.

Much of the safety information was derived from content other users already placed in the article. For right now I transferred all the glassware safety material to the article on laboratory safety. Not surprisingly, this article was missing anything on laboratory glassware safety.