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Chemical Education Today
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From Drugstore Bin to Chemistry Laboratory Stockroom Shelf: Repurposing Prescription Drug Vials
Nik Kakolesha
Science Department, Laredo Community College, Laredo, TX 78040
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July 2009
Vol. 86 No. 7
p. 809
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Most prescription tablets (caplets or pills) come in brown plastic vials. These vials can be repurposed for storing known and unknown solid samples in the chemistry laboratory (Figure 1). The prescription drug labels are easily peeled off, including the labels that will eventually be applied in the lab. The vials can be washed and reused many times. There are plenty of these vials in circulation; you can save your own or ask colleagues and neighbors to donate theirs (suggest that they remove the labels). For those instructors on budgetary constraints, this will help save the department’s money from buying commercial sample vials.

Figure 1

Figure 1. Vial used for a drug prescription (left) and a vial repurposed for a chemistry laboratory (right).
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Kakolesha, Nik. J. Chem. Educ. 2009, 86, 809.
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Keywords
Chemical Education Research; Environmental Chemistry; General Public; Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary; Laboratory Instruction; Laboratory Management
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6/3/2009
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