ASTM E890-94(1998)
(Specification)Standard Specification for Disposable Glass Culture Tubes
Standard Specification for Disposable Glass Culture Tubes
SCOPE
1.1 This specification covers the requirements for disposable glass tubes suitable for general testing and culturing applications in blood banks, hematology, bacteriology, virology, and tissue culture laboratories.
1.2 For practical purposes, the word "disposable" according to this specification and expected product performance expressed in this document describes those disposable glass culture tubes which are to be used one time only. Any institution or individual who reuses a disposable glass culture tube must bear full responsibility for its safety and effectiveness.
1.3 For packaging standards, choose among the following: Specifications E920 or E921 or Practice E1133.
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Designation: E 890 – 94 (Reapproved 1998)
Standard Specification for
Disposable Glass Culture Tubes
This standard is issued under the fixed designation E 890; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
1. Scope E 1133 Practice for Performance Testing of Packaged Labo-
ratory Apparatus for Specialized Procurement
1.1 This specification covers the requirements for dispos-
able glass tubes suitable for general testing and culturing
3. Materials
applications in blood banks, hematology, bacteriology, virol-
3.1 The disposable glass culture tubes shall be made of glass
ogy, and tissue culture laboratories.
conforming to the requirements of Type I, Class A or B
1.2 For practical purposes, the word “disposable” according
(borosilicate glass) or Type II (soda-lime glass) of Specifica-
to this specification and expected product performance ex-
tion E 438.
pressed in this document describes those disposable glass
culture tubes which are to be used one time only. Any
4. Design
institution or individual who reuses a disposable glass culture
4.1 The tubes shall be of one-piece construction in ac-
tube must bear full responsibility for its safety and effective-
cordance with Fig. 1 for shape, and any cross section of the
ness.
tube, taken in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis,
1.3 For packaging standards, choose among the following:
shall preferably be circular.
Specifications E 920 or E 921 or Practice E 1133.
4.2 The top or open end of the tube shall be smoothly
fire-polished at right angles to the horizontal axis of the tube.
2. Referenced Documents
4.3 The bottom or closed end of the tube shall be completely
2.1 ASTM Standards:
closed and shall have a spherical radius inside and outside in
C 148 Methods of Polariscopic Examination of Glass Con-
accordance with Fig. 1. The wall thickness in the bottom shall
tainers
3 be at least 66 ⁄3 % of the side wall thickness, but not more than
E 438 Specification for Glasses in Laboratory Apparatus
210 % of the side wall thickness.
E 671 Specification for Maximum Permissible Thermal Re-
3 4.4 Residual thermal stress shall not exceed 750 psi when
sidual Stress in Annealed Glass Laboratory Apparatus
determined in accordance with Specification E 671.
E 920 Specification for Commercially Packaged Laboratory
3 4.5 Workmanship—The glass tube shall be free of defects
Apparatus
that impair serviceability. The glass tube shall be transparent,
E 921 Specification for Export Packaged Laboratory Appa-
3 clean, dry, and reasonably free
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