LUMITEIN PROTEIN GEL STAIN, 1X

Protein gel stains

15°C to 30°C

n/a

15°C to 30°C

GHS02 flammable, GHS05 corrosive, GHS06 toxic

Danger

H225 Highly flammable liquid and vapour. H226 Flammable liquid and vapour H303 May be harmful if swallowed. H312 Harmful in contact with skin. H314 Causes severe skin burns and eye damage. H317 May cause an allergic skin reaction. H331 Toxic if inhaled H370 Causes damage to organs. H402 Harmful to aquatic life.

A gel is a solid jelly-like material that can have properties ranging from soft and weak to hard and tough. Gels are defined as a substantially dilute cross-linked system, which exhibits no flow when in the steady-state. By weight, gels are mostly liquid, yet they behave like solids due to a three-dimensional cross-linked network within the liquid. It is the crosslinking within the fluid that gives a gel its structure (hardness) and contributes to the adhesive stick (tack). In this way gels are a dispersion of molecules of a liquid within a solid in which the solid is the continuous phase and the liquid is the discontinuous phase. The word gel was coined by 19th-century Scottish chemist Thomas Graham by clipping from gelatin.