Reading a Graduated Cylinder And All about the Meniscus

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Reading a Graduated CylinderAndAll about the
Meniscus
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Reading the Graduated Cylinder

• Liquids in glass containers curve at the edges
• This curve is called the MENISCUS

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Reading the Graduated Cylinder

• Your eye should be level with the top of the
  liquid
• You should read to the bottom of the MENISCUS

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Reading the Graduated Cylinder

• What is this reading?
• 18.0 mL

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Reading the Graduated Cylinder

• What is this reading?
• 36.5 mL

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Reading the Graduated Cylinder

• What is this reading?
• 42.9 mL

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Reading the Graduated Cylinder

• What is this reading?
• 47.0 mL

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Reading the Graduated Cylinder

• What is this reading?
• 61.2 mL

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• Now you know
• How to read a Graduated Cylinder!