what advantage is there to making graduated cylinders narrow and tall rather than short and wide?

Question

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Answer 1

It can be read more accurately, since there's more space between markings. Think about it. You've got a graduated cylinder with lines every 1 mL or however far apart they are. Suppose it had a cross-section twice as big. Well, then 1 mL would take up half as much vertical space as it does now, so the lines would be closer together and the cylinder would be harder to read.

Syringes are the ultimate example of this. They can be read accurately down to 0.01 mL because the graduated cylinders inside them are so narrow.

Answer 2

Tall Graduated Cylinder

Answer 3

Tall, thin cylinders have a very thin meniscus, which makes it much easier to read. Take volumetric flasks for example, the neck of these are extremely thin. In a 1L volumetric flask you can measure down to the drop. In a 1L graduated cylinder you can come within about a mL (20 drops) one way or the other. When precision is a must, the thinner your cylinder the better.

Answer 4

The advantage being that in a taller, thinner graduated cylinder you can more accurately determine how much liquid is being measured in smaller volumes. With a larger volume of liquid it is easier to determine the content volume with a larger diameter cylinder.

Answer 5

good question. if you have a short, wide graduated cylinder you have to have a level on it to keep it true, or else the measurements will be off. a tall narrow cylinder is less suseptible to skewed measurements due to unlevelness.

Answer 6

you have a greater distance between the lines so it's easier to read and a lot more accurate.