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So this video is about epoxy, which is one of the most common surfaces in
laboratory settings and also one of the best. So on the "good-better-best" scale
epoxy would be on the best end of that scale.
So epoxy is mainly a mixture of filler that has epoxy holding it all
together. It comes in a variety of colors and is flame resistant, it is heat... all
kinds of heat resistant,
uh...it is resistant to a broad range of volatile and non-volatile chemicals and
compounds
uh... and it's just a great all-round material.
It's about as hard as rock. It's very hard...it's scratch resistant
uh... it's easy to keep clean and just has a lot of great properties.
It also comes in a variety of colors: so we have our standard black epoxy
that you probably saw in your high school lab that's
very common, it's the least expensive
and the most common of the laboratory epoxy top, epoxy resin surfaces.
Next we have gray, also a very common surface,
we have khaki,
a tan,
what they call a forest green,
a light blue,
which they actually call a steel blue,
and alpine white which is awesome for labs that have to be super clean because
it's really easy to see whatever's on these tops. Also if you have a low
light setting, something that's really interesting to know - of course black
absorbs all light, so your lab will have a much darker appearance if it has a
black top than if it has a white top. White's very reflective so if you have a very
bright interior inside, you might actually not want white, you might want a
gray or another color so that you don't get all that light reflecting back up.
Another thing people ask us, "Will epoxy stand up to anything?" and the answer to that
is a resolute "No".
You can't drop a truck on it, you can't pound on it with a hammer, it will break.
And it will start to show discoloration under some volatile
chemicals uh... hydrochloric acid above 37% isn't tested,
hydrofluoric acid at 48% will cause it to be damaged and pit quite
badly, and sulfuric acid at over 90% will also cause it to pit and
uh... and cause it to be damaged. But it is one of the best materials that you
can get for laboratory applications.
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