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why can’t a precision balance be used to calibrate the adjustable pipettes. What will happen if...

why can’t a precision balance be used to calibrate the adjustable pipettes. What will happen if you weigh 2.5 ul of water with the precision balance ?
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Adjustable pipettes are calibrated according to their precision up to the capacity it is meant for (for example, 10 ul pipette, 25 ul pipette, etc.). Hence, a precision balance can't be used to calibrate the adjustable pipettes.

If you want to weigh water on a precision balance, you need a secondary container for holding liquids like water. Since you want to weight a micro amount of water, such as 2.5 ul, the balanced will show too much error (fluctuate too much) so that you can't guarantee the weight you have measured.

Hence, you need to use micropipettes, that too with suitable capacity to measure a certain micro quantity of liquids.

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