What is a Burette?

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Burette, also spelled sometime buret, is a laboratory instrument used in quantitative chemical analysis to measure the volume of a liquid or a gas. It consists of a long graduated glass tube with a stopcock at one end to control the flow of liquid.

It is commonly used in the titration process for quantitative analysis in many industrial chemical testing where solution of known concentration are used to find the concentration of unknown solution.

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