Resumen de Blowing, blowing, gone
Howgego examines the craft of scientific glassblowing. Glass is the reactor material par excellence. The borosilicate glass that forms most chemical vessels is inert and hugely durable, so people can heat, cool and react the brews within knowing the glass won't explode, deform or interfere with the reaction. And they can see what the chemicals are up to, especially useful for spotting one of those characteristic color changes that set chemists' pulses racing. Chemical glass was itself something of a left-field discovery.
