Ever blow glass???

... cuz I now officially have! Woo hoo. We had two glass pipes, about a half an inch in diameter and we had to get the ends of the glass red hot. Meanwhile, glass doesn't conduct heat very well, so we just held on to the other ends of the pipes with our bare hands. I forgot to mention that you have to cork one end of one of the tubes. When they are red hot you push the ends together to make the intial joint. Then you get the joint red hot again and blow into the open end of the tube. The joint expands and the glass from each tube passes over top and below the other, then get the joint red hot again, repeat several times and there you go! You've now made a longer glass tube. And all of this was done for my inorganic chemistry class because we have to design vessels to hold certain reactions. More glass blowing instructions to follow.