Biology GCSE
gas collection apparatus
What gas collection apparatus means in Biology GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of gas collection apparatus
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Reference: OCR
Equipment such as a gas syringe or an inverted measuring cylinder over water, used to collect oxygen released at timed intervals so that rate equals volume of gas divided by time.
Topics that use gas collection apparatus
- Rates of enzyme-controlled reactions (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- colorimetric and indicator endpoints
- digital stopwatch
- graduated measuring syringes
- initial rate and tangent calculations
- parallax error
- pre-equilibration of biological reagents
- safe laboratory heating
- spotting tile sampling technique
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