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A mini-distillation and reflux system, kit and method in which a heating and glassware arrangement includes a heat source in contact with a heater block having apertures in its top surface for housing boiling tubes upright during a distillation or reflux operation. The boiling tubes contain sample a

A mini-distillation and reflux system, kit and method in which a heating and glassware arrangement includes a heat source in contact with a heater block having apertures in its top surface for housing boiling tubes upright during a distillation or reflux operation. The boiling tubes contain sample and are for attachment of various configurations of glassware assemblies made up of individual, interchangeably connectable glassware pieces so assembled to perform different types of distillations and refluxes. The glassware pieces are of a scaled down size so that numerous distillations and refluxes can be performed simultaneously at a single heat source within a compact space to consume less laboratory space. The scaled down size of the glassware pieces also allows the boiling tubes and attached glassware assemblies to be housed freestandingly within the heater block apertures thus eliminating the time-consuming set-up of bulky support apparatus formerly necessary to support glassware assemblies above boiling receptacles in conventional distillations and refluxes.

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Apparatus for performing a plurality of distillation and reflux operations simultaneously within a compact space comprising: a plurality of boiling tube means for holding a plurality of predetermined volumes of sample; means for heating said plurality of predetermined volumes of sample held in said

Apparatus for performing a plurality of distillation and reflux operations simultaneously within a compact space comprising: a plurality of boiling tube means for holding a plurality of predetermined volumes of sample; means for heating said plurality of predetermined volumes of sample held in said plurality of boiling tube means in order to perform said plurality of distillation and reflux operations simultaneously within a compact space wherein said means for heating includes a heat source and a heater block with said heater block having a bottom surface in contact with said heat source and a top surface with a plurality of apertures therethrough, said plurality of apertures being of a shape and size to hold said plurality of boiling tubes in a freestandingly, approximately upright position during said distillation and reflux operations; and a plurality of varyingly-shaped, miniaturized glassware means for interchangeably connecting to each other to form a plurality of glassware assembly means of various configurations for connection to said plurality of boiling tubes which are inserted into said plurality of apertures of said heater block in order to perform said plurality of distillation and reflux operations on said plurality of predetermined volumes of sample in said plurality of boiling tubes simultaneously within a compact space.