This document lists and describes 55 common pieces of laboratory equipment used in science experiments. Some key apparatus include test tubes for holding chemicals, beakers for heating liquids, burettes and pipettes for precise liquid measurement, burners for providing heat, balances for measuring mass, and filters for separating mixtures. Other tools support functions like holding, connecting, and regulating equipment during experiments.
This document lists and describes 55 common pieces of laboratory equipment used in science experiments. Some key apparatus include test tubes for holding chemicals, beakers for heating liquids, burettes and pipettes for precise liquid measurement, burners for providing heat, balances for measuring mass, and filters for separating mixtures. Other tools support functions like holding, connecting, and regulating equipment during experiments.
This document lists and describes 55 common pieces of laboratory equipment used in science experiments. Some key apparatus include test tubes for holding chemicals, beakers for heating liquids, burettes and pipettes for precise liquid measurement, burners for providing heat, balances for measuring mass, and filters for separating mixtures. Other tools support functions like holding, connecting, and regulating equipment during experiments.
This document lists and describes 55 common pieces of laboratory equipment used in science experiments. Some key apparatus include test tubes for holding chemicals, beakers for heating liquids, burettes and pipettes for precise liquid measurement, burners for providing heat, balances for measuring mass, and filters for separating mixtures. Other tools support functions like holding, connecting, and regulating equipment during experiments.
1. Spatula - to scoop small amounts of a solid tubes while reactions happen in them or while substance and to scrape something. they are not needed. 2. Glass Funnel - used to channel liquid or fine- 27. Iron Stand – used to hold the iron ring grained substances into containers with a small and supports. opening. 28. Iron Ring – used to hold or support 3. Stirring/Glass Rod - used to mix chemicals beakers during experiments while connected and liquids for laboratory purposes to the iron stand. 4. Thistle Tube - to add liquid to an existing 29. Tripod – three-legged support equipment system of apparatus. used to place above the bunsen burner in the 5. Dropper/Pasteur Pipette - used to science lab to heat/boil anything. transport a measured volume of liquid. 30. Burette Clamp - used to fasten 6. Volumetric Flask - used to measure one glassware into place on a ring stand specific volume. 31. Clay Triangle - used to hold crucibles 7. Mohr Burette - used to measure the volume when they are being heated. of the liquid dispensed. 32. Clamp Holder - used to secure an 8. Geissler/Acid Burette - used especially in extension-type utility clamp to a support laboratory procedures for accurate fluid stand (or ring stand) dispensing and measurement. 33. Mortar & Pestle - used to crush solids 9. Volumetric Pipette - a tool for measuring into powders for experiments, usually to precise volumes of a liquid. better dissolve the solids. 10. Serological Pipette - used in the same way 34. Bunsen Burner - used for heating and as Mohr pipettes except all the solution must be exposing items to flame. forced out in the receiving container to deliver 35. Alcohol Lamp – Used to heat things. required volumes. 36. Wing Top/Fish Tail - used to bend glass 11. Graduated Cylinder - used to accurately as it spread out the heat over a larger area, measure the volume of a liquid. making it more uniform. 12. Beaker - Used to hold and heat liquids. 37. Wire Gauze - used to spread heat of a 13. Florence Flask - used for heating substances burner flame that needs to be heated evenly. 38. Cork Borer - tool for cutting a hole in a 14. Erlenmeyer flask - used to heat and store cork or rubber stopper to insert glass tubing. liquids. 39. Thermometer - used to take temperature 15. Iodine Flask - used for the wet chemical of solids, liquids, and gases. analysis 40. Desiccators - used for preserving 16. Evaporating Dish - used to heat and moisture-sensitive items. evaporate liquids. 41. Weighing Bottle - used when you're 17. Porcelain Casserole making up a standard solution. 18. Watch Glass - used to hold solids when 42. Triangular File - used for many cuts, being weighed or transported. such as cutting angles less than 90 degrees. 19. Ignition Tube - primarily used to hold small 43. Petri Dish - use to culture cells, which quantities of substances which are undergoing can be bacteria, animal, plant, or fungus. direct heating by a Bunsen burner or other heat 44. Spot Plate – Used for observing small source. amounts of solids. 20. Porcelain Crucible - used to heat small 45. Test Tube brush - used to easily clean quantities to very high temperatures. the inside of a test tube. 21. Crucible Tong – Used to hold the crucible 46. Pinchcock - used to regulate or close a 22. Distilling Flask - used for distillation flexible tube, especially in laboratory processes. apparatus. 23. Condenser - used in distillation 47. Rubber Aspirator – used for moving air, 24. Adapter - a device that connects the fluids, etc. by suction condenser and the receiving flask in a distillation 48. Rubber Tubing - is used to connect two process. openings. 25. Test Tube - used by chemists to hold, mix, or 49. Separatory Funnel - used in liquid-liquid heat small quantities of solid or liquid chemicals, extractions to separate (partition) the especially for qualitative experiments and assays. components of a mixture between two immiscible solvent phases of different densities. 50. Buchner Funnel - used in suction filtration. 51. Filtering Flask - holds the sample isolated from the suction by a layer of filter paper. 52. Triple Beam Balance - used in the laboratory to determine the mass (by weight comparison) of samples. 53. Analytical Balance - measures masses to within 0.0001 g. 54. Hot Plate – Used for heating beakers, Erlenmeyer flasks, hot water baths, and other flat-bottomed containers. 55. pH meter – Used to measure acidity of solutions 56. Wash Bottle – Used for dispensing small quantities of distilled water.