page_title: Air displacement pipette
section_title: Single-channel and multi-channel pipettes
hierarchical_section_title: Air displacement pipette / Models / Single-channel and multi-channel pipettes
caption_attribution_description: English: Adjustable tip spacing pipette transferring samples from a 384 well plate to a 96 well plate
context_page_description: Piston-driven air displacement pipettes are a type of micropipette, which are tools to handle volumes of liquid in the microliter scale. They are more commonly used in biology and biochemistry, and less commonly in chemistry; the equipment is susceptible to damage from many organic solvents.
context_section_description: Depending on the number of pistons in a pipette, there is a differentiation between single-channel pipettes and multi-channel pipettes. For manual high-throughput applications like filling up a 96-well microtiter plate most researchers prefer a multi-channel pipette. Instead of handling well by well, a row of 8 wells can be handled in parallel as this type of pipette has 8 pistons in parallel.
caption: Adjustable tip spacing pipette transferring samples from a 384 well plate to a 96 well plate
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