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Encyclopedia > Bung
A jug with a cork bung.
A jug with a cork bung.

A bung is an apparatus used to seal a container, such as a bottle, tube or barrel. Unlike a lid which encloses a container from the outside without displacing the inner volume, a bung is partially inserted inside the container to act as a seal. The lids for safety overpacks for 55 gallon drums some times may have a bung built in[1] for access of the contents of the container. These may be referred to as fuel bungs. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x3872, 1096 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bung Stopper (plug) Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2592x3872, 1096 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bung Stopper (plug) Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used... Compression seal example A mechanical seal is a device which helps join systems or mechanisms together by preventing leakage (eg. ... Containers in the port of Kotka (Finland) on the Baltic Sea. ... Reusable glass milk bottles A bottle is a small container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a mouth. ... TUBE (チューブ; chūbu) is a Japanese popular music group. ... Traditional wooden barrels in Cutchogue Modern aluminium beer barrels - also called casks - outside the Castle Rock microbrewery in Nottingham, England A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of wood staves and bound with iron hoops. ... LID is an abbreviation for: Light-Weight Identity, a system that allows individuals to claim and own their digital identity on the Internet League for Industrial Democracy Library Interchange Definition This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Volume is how much space a thing has. ...


The most common every-day example of a bung is the cork of a wine bottle. Other bungs, particularly those used in chemical barrels, may be made of metal and are screwed into place via threading. A cork stopper for a wine bottle A Champagne cork A stopper is a truncated conical piece of rubber or cork used to close off a glass tube, piece of laboratory glassware, a wine bottle or barrel and other containers with orifices. ... Bottles of Wine A wine bottle is a bottle used for holding wine, generally made of glass. ...


Rubber bungs

In chemistry, bungs are usually made of hardened rubber. Some chemistry bungs may also include one or more holes so a glass tube or laboratory funnel may be inserted through the bung and into the container or another piece of apparatus. The rubber bung may be used to seal a flask because the user may require the contents to be mixed via shaking the flask or may require that the contents be kept inside the flask and prevented from leaking out. In all cases, the bung keeps the experimentation environment completely sealed so that liquids or gases cannot escape. Chemistry (from Greek χημεία khemeia[1] meaning alchemy) is the science of matter at the atomic to molecular scale, dealing primarily with collections of atoms, such as gases, molecules, crystals, and metals. ... Glass Tube, a tube made of glass used for carrying gases between pieces of apparatus during a laboratory experiment. ... A laboratory funnel has a variety of uses within the laboratory. ... A liquid will assume the shape of its container. ... -1...


Apart from self-made glassware, rubber bungs are rarely used now. They have been supplanted by laboratory glassware which come with standard ground glass joints which allow the pieces to be fitted together easily. Ground glass joints are also much more resistant to solvents and chemicals used. Brown glass jars with some clear lab glassware in the background Laboratory glassware refers to a variety of equipment, traditionally made of glass, used for scientific experiments and other work in science, especially in chemistry and biology laboratories. ... A reflux set-up with conically-tapered ground glass joints connecting the Graham condenser with the vacuum adapter (top) and two-necked flask. ...

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Laboratory glassware
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