Liebig Condenser

Product Code : SCL-LG-11987

Liebig Condenser (SKU SCL-LG-11987) is a straight, water-cooled borosilicate glass condenser with a 200 mm jacket that turns hot vapour back into liquid during distillation. Chemistry teachers, college practical classes and research laboratories fit it to distillation set-ups for purifying liquids and recovering solvents. Science Lab Supplies provides this condenser from Ambala, India to schools, colleges, universities, tender contractors and distributors as part of its borosilicate laboratory glassware in India.

Specifications

This model has a straight inner vapour tube, integral with the body, surrounded by a narrow cooling-water jacket 200 mm long. Vapour travels down the inner tube while water flows through the jacket, carrying the heat away so the vapour condenses and runs into a receiver.

Applications and Experiments for the Liebig Condenser

The condenser is the cooling stage of a simple distillation train: a heated flask sends vapour into it and a receiver collects the condensate. In teaching labs it demonstrates purification by distillation, phase change and heat transfer; in research rooms it recovers solvents or serves a reflux set-up that specifies a straight condenser.

• Class 11 chemistry: purification of liquids by simple distillation.
• B.Sc. organic chemistry: distilling and recovering solvents.
• Reflux heating where a straight water-cooled condenser is called for.
• Physics and chemistry demonstrations of condensation and heat transfer.

Connect the water inlet to the lower jacket connection and the outlet to the upper one so the jacket fills completely, and start the water before vapour arrives. Clamp securely and never heat a sealed system.

Standard Scope of Supply

You receive one Liebig Condenser with a 200 mm jacket. Rubber tubing, clamps, stands, flasks, adapters, heating sources and receivers are not included, so list any of these you need and they can be quoted with the condenser as a complete distillation assembly.

Packing, MOQ and Lead Time

From one replacement condenser to a batch for every bench, tell us the quantity and the quotation will set out packing, delivery time and price. If you are building laboratory distillation apparatus in India, flasks and receivers can be priced in the same document.

Registered as an exporter under an Importer-Exporter Code, Science Lab Supplies can ship to buyers in Peru, Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana. Send quantities through the contact page, gather several items in the enquiry cart, or see the lab tender page if you are buying against a tender.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Liebig condenser used for?
It cools hot vapour and turns it back into liquid, most often during laboratory distillation. The condensed liquid runs out of the lower end into a receiving flask.

What size is this condenser?
The jacket is 200 mm long. Overall length and joint size are not stated in the listing, so ask for them on the quotation if your flasks and adapters need a particular fitting.

Which way should the cooling water flow?
Water should enter at the lower connection and leave from the upper one. This keeps the jacket full and gives the coldest water at the outlet end of the vapour tube.

Who supplies the Liebig Condenser?
Science Lab Supplies in Ambala, Haryana, India supplies it. Schools, colleges and contractors can buy it singly or with the flasks, stands and tubing for a full distillation set on one quotation.

Related Distillation Glassware

A condenser only works as part of a train: a boiling flask supplies the vapour, a receiver collects the distillate, and the product is measured and stored afterwards. These four items complete that chain, so the whole distillation bench can be ordered together.

• Borosilicate Flat Bottom Flask — the boiling flask at the start of the train.
• Borosilicate Conical Flask — a convenient receiver for the distillate.
• Measuring Cylinder Glass — measures the volume collected.
• Reagent Bottles Narrow-Mouth — stores recovered solvents and distillates.

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Last updated: 25 September 2026