Solvents for Laboratories & Education in Namibia

When the solvent touches the result: extractions, chromatography, spectroscopic prep, standard solutions. Technical grades carry residues that appear in your baseline. For cleaning glassware and general dissolution, technical acetone and alcohol serve fine at a fraction of the price — the discipline is keeping the two shelves honest.

A dedicated, ventilated flammables cabinet away from exits and ignition, quantities capped to what the term actually uses, bottles capped properly (Namibian evaporation empties loose caps impressively), and a register of what is held. We supply small pack sizes precisely so storage stays inside what a school can defend.

Fume hood or don’t: chloroform’s vapour rules out open-bench use in teaching settings, so hold it only where extraction work justifies it and the hood exists — CP grade, minimum quantity, logged use. For demonstrations of solvent properties, safer substitutes carry the lesson. We will flag it on any school order for exactly this conversation.

Heat and caps: at Namibian storeroom temperatures, volatile solvents breathe past worn seals and evaporate through transfer sloppiness — the register is honest, the bottles are not. Buy smaller bottles more often (local stock makes that rational), replace suspect caps, and decant with funnels. The shrinkage line usually vanishes.