Name: Bernadette P.

Dulay Subject: Chem 113a

Yr/Course/Sec: 1 DVM-A Date: September 14, 2021

Instruction. Determine the uses of each apparatus and submit it within a week in word doc or
pdf format.

1. Alcohol lamp

- An alcohol lamp is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion in a laboratory. The alcohol
lamp uses ethyl alcohol or spirit as a fuel.

2. Wire loop

- A tool usually made or platinum or nichrome wire in which the tip forms a small loop with a
diameter of about 5mm, and is used to smear, streak, or take an inoculum from a culture of
microorganisms.

3. Beaker

- Beakers are useful as a reaction container or to hold liquid or solid samples. They are also
used to catch liquids from titrations and filtrates from filtering operations.

4. Bulb flask

- Bulb flasks are also called round-bottomed flasks. They are mainly used or heating liquids for
distillation or as receiving flasks for the distillate.

5. Burette (also buret)

- Burette is a laboratory apparatus commonly used to dispensed and measure variable amounts
of liquid or sometimes gas within chemical and industrial testing specially for the titration
process in volumetric analysis. Burettes can be specified according to their volume, resolution,
and accuracy of dispensing.
6. Bar magnet

- The main function of the bar magnets is to pick up small metallic objects like metal shavings or
nails and screws, as magnetic stirring rods in laboratory applications, and as magnet
refrigerators. Their most common application is the needle used in compasses.

7. Clamp holder

- A clamp holder or clamp fastener is a peace of laboratory apparatus that is used to secure
laboratory clamps, such as extension – type utility clamps, or other attachments to a ring stand
or lab frame. The material can be made up of brass, cast iron, stainless steel, aluminum or
nickel – plated zinc.

8. Burette Clamp

- Burette clamp is scientific equipment which used specifically to hold and secure a burette on a
stand, so that a burette is fixed and more convenient for the experiment. Burette clamps can be
made with many materials such as plastic and cast iron.

9. Clay triangle

- A pipe clay triangle is a piece of laboratory apparatus that is used to support a crucible being
heated by a Bunsen burner or other heat source.

10. Condenser

- The function of the condenser in a refrigeration system is to transfer heat from the refrigerant
to another medium, such as air and/or water. By rejecting heat, the gaseous refrigerant
condenses to liquid inside condenser. The major types of condensers used are; (1) water –
cooled, (2) air – cooled, (3) evaporative.

11. Crucible

- Used from ancient times as a container for melting or testing metals. Crucibles were probably
so named from the Latin word crux, “cross” or “trial.” Modern crucibles may be small laboratory
utensils for conducting high – temperature chemical reactions and analyses or large industrial
vessels for melting and calcining metal and ore; they may be made of clay, graphite, porcelain,
or a relatively infusible metal.

12. Crucible tongs

-Crucial tongs are scissor – like tools, but instead of having two blades, these tools are replaced
with two pincers or pieces of metals that concave together, which allow the users to grasp a hot
crucible, flasks, evaporating dishes, or even small beakers.

13. Cork

- The most familiar use for cork is a stoppers for wine bottles to keep air out to prevent
contaminations and evaporations. Its molecular structure, principally suberin & lignin, is resistant
to water, alcohol, ether, chloroform, concentrated sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid.

14. Rubber stoppers

- Rubber stoppers are ideal for plugging joints or holes in laboratory glassware and creating a
liquid – tight seal. Rubber bungs are often used with glass containers such as test tubes, flasks
jugs, and many other pieces of standard lab equipment.

15. Distilling flasks

- Distilling flasks are primarily used for distillation, the process of separating a mixture of liquids
with different boiling points through evaporation and condensation. Liquids with lower boiling
points vaporize first and then rise through the neck and into the side arm, where they re-
condense and collect in a separate container.

16. Evaporating dish

Evaporating dishes (or crystallizing dishes) are shallow bowls with a flat bottom and pour spout
that may be used as reaction vessels, or for the separation of the solute from a solution through
crystallization.

17. Erlenmeyer flask

Erlenmeyer flasks are used to contain liquids and for mixing, heating, cooling, incubation,
filtration, storage, and other liquid – handling processes. Their slanted sides and narrow necks
allow the contents to be mixed allow the contents to be mixed by swirling without the risks of
spills, which is useful for traditions and for boiling liquids.

18. Florence flasks

Florence flasks are characterized by long neck and rounded bottom with flat base. It is useful as
a reaction vessel as well as for heating solutions.

19. Forceps

Forceps are non-locking grasping tools that function as an extension of the thumb and opposing
fingers in the assisting hand to augment the instrument in the operating hand. Their primary
purpose is to grasp, retract, or stabilize tissue.

20. Funnel

A funnel s the tube or pipe that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, used for guiding
liquid or powder into a small opening. Funnels are usually made of stainless steel, aluminum,
glass, or plastic.

21. Glass tubes or Glass tubing

Glass tubing is used to connect other pieces of lab equipment. It can be cut, bent, and stretched
for a variety of uses.

22. Graduated Cylinder

Graduated cylinders are long, slender vessels used for measuring the volumes of liquids. They
are not intended for stirring, heating, or weighing. Graduated cylinders are commonly range is
size from 5mL to 500mL.

23. Test tube

Test tubes are widely used by chemists to hold, mix, or heat small quantities of solid or liquid
chemicals, especially for qualitative experiments and assays. Their round bottom and straight
sides minimize mass loss when pouring, make it easier to clean, and allow convenient
monitoring of the contents.

24. Iron stand

Iron stands supports the iron ring when heating substances or mixtures in flask or beaker (using
a Bunsen burner) clamps can also be used to hold glassware on the iron ring.

25. Iron ring

Iron rings are commonly used in chemistry laboratories for supporting apparatus above the work
surface.

26. Cobalt blue glass

Cobalt blue glass is a blue glass useful for masking yellow (sodium) emission. This can be
especially useful for identifying elements that weakly emit blue and/ or violet. Liquids or solids
can be tested simply by introducing the sample into the flame.

27. Pestle and Mortar

A mortar is a vessel in which substance are ground or crushed with a pestle. A pestle is a tool
used to crush, mash, or grind materials in a mortar. In solid state chemistry a mortar and pestle
is often used to prepare reactants for a state synthesis (the ceramic method).

28. Micropipette

A micropipette is a common yet an essential laboratory instrument used to accurately and

precisely transfer volumes of liquid in the microliter range. Micropipettes are available in single
channel and multi-channel variants.

29. Pipette gun

Pipette – aides or pipettors are suction devices that are used to either suck liquids into or expel
liquids out of pipettes for some types of measurement it may be necessary to expel, or blow –
out, the total liquid volume from the pipette using the pipette – aid.

30. Pipettor or pipette bulb

It serves as a vacuum source for filling reagents through a pipette or Pasteur pipette and also
helps control the flow of liquid from the dropping bottle. By using rubber bulb, the contact of the
mouth to the chemicals can be avoided.

31. Water bath

A water bath is a laboratory apparatus that is used to incubate samples at a constant

temperature over a long period of time. Water bath is a preferred heat source for hating
flammable chemicals instead of an open flame to prevent ignition.

32. Stirring rod

Stirring rod is used for mixing liquids, or solids and liquids. Stir rods are used as part of proper
laboratory technique when decanting supernatants because the contact helps to negate the
adhesion between the side of the glassware and the supernatant that is responsible for the
liquid running down the side.

33. Spatula

Spatulas are used to transport and distribute dry chemical compounds. Spatulas are used most
often when weighing out chemicals on a balance because they allow you to collect very small
quantities of the chemical at a time.

34. Separatory funnel

Separatory funnels are used in the lab for liquid-liquid extractions, separating a mixture's
components into two solvent phases of different densities. The higher density liquid sinks to the
bottom and can then be drained from a valve, leaving the less dense liquid in the funnel.

35. Triangular

A triangular file is a specialized tool for trimming and sharpening edges.

36. Tripod

A laboratory tripod is a piece of three – legged equipment commonly used to conduct

experiments in laboratories.

37. Wash bottle

A wash bottle is a squeeze bottle with a nozzle, used to rinse various pieces of laboratory
glassware, such as test tubes and round bottom flasks. Wash bottles are sealed with a screw –
top lid.

38. Thermometer

A thermometer is an instrument that measures temperature. It can measure the temperature of

a solid such as food, a liquid such as water, or gas such as air. The three most common units of
measurement for temperature are Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin. The Celsius scale is part of
the metric system.

39. Test tube holder

A test tube holder, on the other hand, is a tool used to hold one test tube. By squeezing the
handle, the holder’s spring – loaded jaws in order to grip the test tube.

40. Test tube rack

A test tube rack is a piece or laboratory equipment used to hold multiple test tubes upright at the
same time. They are especially useful for organizing test tubes when the different solutions are
being worked on or collected at once.

41. Test tube brush

A test tube brush or spout brush is a brush used for cleaning test tubes and narrow mouth
laboratory glassware, such as graduated cylinders, burettes, and Erlenmeyer flasks.

42. Bunsen burner

Bunsen burner is a commonly laboratory instrument that produces a hot, soot-less non-
luminous flame. The Bunsen burner allows or precise regulation of mixing of gas and oxygen in
its central barrel before combustion, which ignites the flame.

43. Spot plate

A ceramic plate with small wells or depressions built into it, often used or qualitative analysis. A
laboratory spot plate is a flat ceramic or plastic plate.

44. Volumetric flasks

Volumetric flaks is used when it is necessary to know both precisely and accurately the volume
of the solution that is being prepared. Like volumetric pipettes, volumetric flasks come in
different sizes, depending on the volume of the solution being prepared.

45. Watch glass

A watch glass is a round, concave glass dish used for evaporation in chemistry. It can also
employed for weighing solids and as a lid for flasks and beakers.

46. Wire gauze

Wire gauze is an important piece of supporting equipment in a laboratory as glassware cannot

be heated directly with the flame of a Bunsen burner, and requires the use of a wire gauze to
diffuse the heat, helping to protect the glassware. Glassware has to be flat-bottomed to stay on
the wire gauze.

47. Rubber tubing

Rubber tubing, also known as rubber hose or rubber piping, is made of natural synthetic rubber
and is used to circulate and transport liquids and gases for household and industrial uses.