Automatic Burettes

Automatic burettes add a connected reservoir bottle and fill bulb to a standard burette, so it tops itself up without being taken off the stand.

SmartLabs stocks a Class A automatic burette with a PTFE needle valve stopcock and Schellbach stripe, built for labs that run the same titration again and again, shipped nationwide from our Boksburg warehouse.

Automatic burette with reservoir bottle in a chemistry lab

What is a burette?

A burette is a graduated glass tube fitted with a stopcock valve at the base, used to dispense a precisely measured, variable volume of liquid drop by drop. Automatic burettes add a connected reservoir bottle and fill bulb, letting you refill the tube directly from the bottle without removing it from its stand.

SmartLabs stocks burettes for schools, universities, and professional labs across South Africa. Essential for titrations and other quantitative chemistry work, a burette remains one of the most precise ways to measure out a variable volume of liquid.

Common uses of automatic burettes

Precise, drop-by-drop liquid measurement for quantitative chemistry.

  • Releasing a drop of titrant from a burette into a conical flask

    Acid-base titrations

    Turning the stopcock releases a controlled drop-by-drop stream of titrant, letting you find the exact endpoint of a reaction.

  • Squeezing the fill bulb of an automatic burette system

    Quick refilling from a reservoir

    An automatic burette's fill bulb draws fresh titrant up from the connected bottle without lifting the burette off its stand.

  • Reading the meniscus level on a graduated burette

    Precise volume measurement

    Fine graduated markings let you read the liquid meniscus accurately, down to a fraction of a millilitre.

  • Student performing an acid-base titration with a burette

    School and university practicals

    A burette mounted on a retort stand is a core piece of equipment in quantitative chemistry practicals at every level.