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70.17 - Laboratory, hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware, whether or not graduated or calibrated. - Of fused quartz or other fused silica 7017.20 - Of other glass having a linear coeficient of expansion not exceeding 5 x 7017.10 per Kelvin within a temperature range of 0 "C to 300 OC 7017.90 - Other I This heading covers glass articles of a kind in eneral use in laboratories research, pharmaceutical, industrial, etc.), includin special bott es (gas washing, reagent, Wou fs, etc.), s ecial tubes (gas washing, drymg, con ensation, filter, gas burettes, test-tubes, etc.), stirrers, $stilling, flasks, graduated jars, culture flasks Kolle, Roux, etc.), burettes of all kinds, evaporating dishes, volumetric flasks, s ecial be1 -jars and receivers (vacuum, necked, etc.), s ecial dropping bottles (calibrated, etc?, retorts, crystallisin dishes, drying cylinders, filter p ates and discs, s oons, desiccators, dialysers, adapters, con ensers, receivers for distillation apparatus, special k e l s (with stop-cock, bulb-shaped funnels, etc.), cylinders, crucibles, filter crucibles, special flasks (conical, multi-necked, etc.), special s irit burners, mortars, weighing boats, pipettes, vacuum vessels of various specialized types g o t falling in heading 96.17), wash-bottles, sto -cocks, spatulas, ars (filtering, precipitating, multinecked, etc.), muffles, crucible support p ates, microscope s ides and cover glasses, etc. K 'f I % ! Reference should be made to Explanatory Note to heading 90.27 for the rules governing the classification of instruments and a aratus for physical or chemical analysis which, though potentially covered by heading 9 0 . 8 myat the same time be taken to be laboratory glassware within the meaning of this heading. Such reference will show that this heading covers for exam ley acidimeters (other than those of heading 90.25), galactometers, butyrometers, lacto utyrometers, and similar instruments for testing dairy products; albumenometers and ureometers; eudiometers; volumenometers, nitrometers, K$ps and Kjeldahl a paratus and the like; calcimeters; cryoscopes and ebullioscopes for detemimng molecular weigts, etc. # The expression "hygienic or pharmaceutical glassware " refers to articles of general use not inter alia, irri ators, requirin the services of a practitioner. The nozzles ?for syringes, enemas, etc.), urinals, cupping-g asses, breast-relievers with or without rubber bulb), depressors. Spools and reels or winding surgical catgut are also included. f Articles of this heading may be graduated or calibrated. They may be made of ordinary lass (particularly for pharmaceutical or hygienic oses), but laboratory glassware is fre uent y of borosilicate glass, hsed quartz or other fuse si ica because of the greater chemical sta ility and low coefficient of expansion of such glass. BY a The heading excludes (a) Containers for the conveyance or packing of goods (headin 70.10); ordinary curved watch glasses sometimes used in the laboratory (headbg 70.15, see ffieExp, anatory Note to that heading); chemists' special display bottles and glassware of a kind used for industrial purposes (heading 70.20). f (b) GIass instruments and appliances of Chapter 90, for example, hypodermic syringes, special cannulae and other articles berng medical, surgical, dental or veterinary instruments or appliances (heading 90.18); hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers and barometers of heading 90.25, instruments and apparatus of heading 90.26 (for measuring or checking fluid flow, etc.) and instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis, etc., of heading 90.27.
1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Goods of heading 32.07 (for example, vitrifiable enamels and glazes, glass frit, other glass in the form of powder, granules or flakes); (b) Articles of Chapter 71 (for example, imitation jewellery); (c) Optical fibre cables of heading 85.44, electrical insulators (heading 85.46) or fittings of insulating material of heading 85.47; (d) Front windscreens (windshields), rear windows and other windows, framed, for vehicles of Chapters 86 to 88; (e) Front windscreens (windshields), rear windows and other windows, whether or not framed, incorporating heating devices or other electrical or electronic devices, for vehicles of Chapters 86 to 88; (f) Optical fibres, optically worked optical elements, hypodermic syringes, artificial eyes, thermometers, barometers, hydrometers or other articles of Chapter 90; (g) Luminaires and lighting fittings, illuminated signs, illuminated name-plates or the like, having a permanently fixed light source, or parts thereof of heading 94.05; (h) Toys, games, sports requisites, Christmas tree ornaments or other articles of Chapter 95 (excluding glass eyes without mechanisms for dolls or for other articles of Chapter 95); or (ij) Buttons, fitted vacuum flasks, scent or similar sprays or other articles of Chapter 96. 2.- For the purposes of headings 70.03, 70.04 and 70.05 : (a) glass is not regarded as “worked” by reason of any process it has undergone before annealing; (b) cutting to shape does not affect the classification of glass in sheets; (c) the expression “absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer” means a microscopically thin coating of metal or of a chemical compound (for example, metal oxide) which absorbs, for example, infra- red light or improves the reflecting qualities of the glass while still allowing it to retain a degree of transparency or translucency; or which prevents light from being reflected on the surface of the glass. 3.- The products referred to in heading 70.06 remain classified in that heading whether or not they have the character of articles. 4.- For the purposes of heading 70.19, the expression “glass wool” means : (a) Mineral wools with a silica (SiO ) content not less than 60 % by weight; 2 (b) Mineral wools with a silica (SiO ) content less than 60 % but with an alkaline oxide (K O or Na O) 2 2 2 content exceeding 5 % by weight or a boric oxide (BO ) content exceeding 2 % by weight. 2 3 Mineral wools which do not comply with the above specifications fall in heading 68.06. 5.- Throughout the Nomenclature, the expression “glass” includes fused quartz and other fused silica. Subheading Note. 1.- For the purposes of subheadings 7013.22, 7013.33, 7013.41 and 7013.91, the expression “lead crystal” means only glass having a minimum lead monoxide (PbO) content by weight of 24 %.