Laboratory tools

Laboratory tools

• Safety gear – goggles, latex gloves, lab coat, shield

• Electronic balance - used for measuring substances.

• Ring stand - used to clamp lab glassware.

• Ring clamp - used to hold glassware (it is used with ring stand)

• Wire gauze - used to support beaker on the ring stand while it's been heated.

• Bunsen burner

• Beaker - glass apparatus for holding, mixing and heating liquids.

• Beaker tongs - metallic scissors used to handle beaker.

• Crucible - ceramic pot for holding chemicals during heating.

• Clay triangle - metallic triangle used to supporting crucible during heating.

• Crucible songs - metallic scissors used to handle crucible.

• Evaporating dish - wide ceramic dish used for heating liquids and for evaporation.

• Utility clamp -metallic clamp used to secure glassware to ring stand.

• Buret - a long glass graduated tube with a tap around it. It is used for dispensing an accurate volume of liquid and measuring its discharge.

• Conical flask/Erlenmeyer flask - glassware with narrow neck that is used for holding and mixing chemicals without spilling.

• Test tube - glass tube with a round base.

• Pipet bulb - used to draw liquids into a pipe. It's made from rubber.

• Forceps - used to pick up or hold small objects.

• Mortal and pestle - used to crush and grind material.

• Scoopula - similar to spoon, it is used to transfer solid chemicals.

• Stirring rod - used for steering and mixing. It is made from glass.

• Funnel - used to transfer liquids into glassware with small openings. It is also useful for filtration.

• Volumetric flask - round flask, used to prepare solutions to an accurate volume.

• Volumetric pipet - graduated glass tube used to measure exact volume of liquid.

• Graduated cylinder - used to measure exact volume of liquid.

• Wash bottle- useful for adding small quantities of water.

• Spot plate

• Test tube rack/stand – for holding/placing test tubes.

• Centrifuge – a machine using centrifugal force for separating substances of different densities.

• Dessicator – it is used for absorbing the moisture/water present in chemical substances.

• Hydrometer – a device for measuring some characteristics of a liquid (like density or gravity)

• Polarograph – device that registers the current in electrolysis at a dropping mercury electrode.

• Furnace – an enclosed structure producing heat.

• Hood - an enclosed structure for carrying of fumes, sprays, smokes or dust.