Core® Portable Compact Balances

 

Core Portable Balances

No balance can beat the Core for basic weighing value. Core’s housing is simple to clean and designed to stack for easy storage. A basic keypad with dual tare keys makes Core balances easy to use

The Core is an outstanding value, providing easy operation and a portable solution for any basic precision weighing tasks. An innovative stackable design saves space, so the Core lends itself well to science classrooms or busy labs. Offering precision results, Core is suitable for weighing compounds in science classrooms, samples at a field lab, ingredients in food labs and specimens at veterinary offices. The Core includes a convenient weigh-below hook, facilitating below-balance weighing for tasks requiring density and specific gravity measurements.

Features and Benefits

• Vivid, backlit LCD easily visible in any lighting conditions
• Programmable backlight can be set to “always on,” “always off” or “light only when weighing”
• Balances stack efficiently and safely to save space (120mm pan size only)
• Colour-coded keys facilitate quick recognition of the most frequently used buttons
• Dual tare keys operate with either the left or right hand
• Large, grade 304 stainless steel pan allows easy cleaning
• Rugged construction stands up to industrial use
• Three-point ShockProtect® feature helps prevent overload damage to internal components
• Hook included for weighing below the balance
• Removable draft shield (120mm and 160mm pan size only)
• Operates with AC adapter (included) or batteries (not included)
• Auto power-off to save energy
• A 3-year warranty means quality assured for years of use.

Seven models are available

From 200g x 0.01g to 5000g x 1g.  Prices start from an affordable £111.00.

Adam Equipment’s extensive product line up offers intuitive operation, precision accuracy and dependable performance to make any weighing process more straightforward than ever. Their core focus is quality and reliability, to ensure that every Adam scale or balance purchased can be trusted to provide steadfast results with every use.

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On this day in science history: the earliest recorded confirmed total solar eclipse occurred

In 709 BC, the earliest record of a confirmed total solar eclipse was written in China. From: Ch'un-ch'iu, book I: "Duke Huan, 3rd year, 7th month, day jen-ch'en, the first day (of the month). The Sun was eclipsed and it was total." This is the earliest direct allusion to a complete obscuration of the Sun in any civilisation. The recorded date, when reduced to the Julian calendar, agrees exactly with that of a computed solar eclipse. Reference to the same eclipse appears in the Han-shu ('History of the Former Han Dynasty') (Chinese, 1st century AD): "...the eclipse threaded centrally through the Sun; above and below it was yellow." Earlier Chinese writings that refer to an eclipse do so without noting totality.

Total Solar Eclipse. I, Luc Viatour [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Having fascinated mankind for years, the Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth. Its diameter is about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass is about 330,000 times that of Earth, accounting for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. About three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen (~73%); the rest is mostly helium (~25%), with much smaller quantities of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon, and iron.

The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star (G2V) based on its spectral class. As such, it is informally referred to as a yellow dwarf. It formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of matter within a region of a large molecular cloud. Most of this matter gathered in the center, whereas the rest flattened into an orbiting disk that became the Solar System. The central mass became so hot and dense that it eventually initiated nuclear fusion in its core. It is thought that almost all stars form by this process.

The Sun is roughly middle-aged; it has not changed dramatically for more than four billion years, and will remain fairly stable for more than another five billion years. After hydrogen fusion in its core has diminished to the point at which it is no longer in hydrostatic equilibrium, the core of the Sun will experience a marked increase in density and temperature while its outer layers expand to eventually become a red giant. It is calculated that the Sun will become sufficiently large to engulf the current orbits of Mercury and Venus, and render Earth uninhabitable.

The enormous effect of the Sun on Earth has been recognized since prehistoric times, and the Sun has been regarded by some cultures as a deity. The synodic rotation of Earth and its orbit around the Sun are the basis of the solar calendar, which is the predominant calendar in use today.

For more information, visit:

https://todayinsci.com/7/7_17.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

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