1. LABORATORY and SAFETY EQUIPMENT AND THEIR FUNCTIONS

2. Goggles Most important piece of lab equipment
Protects eyes from broken glass, chemicals, and flames.

3. Lab Aprons
Protects clothes from chemicals

4. Eye Wash
Rinse eyes for min. if exposed to chemicals

5. Fire Blanket
Wrap around a person whose clothes or hair have caught on fire (then they should drop and roll)

6. Beaker
May be heated
Used to hold or mix chemicals

7. Stirring Rod
Glass rod used for stirring
BE CAREFUL! They break easily

8. Erlenmeyer Flask
May be heated
Used for mixing chemicals

9. Florence Flask
Glassware used to heat and store substances.

10. Graduated Cylinder
Measures volumes of liquids

11. Test Tube May be heated Holding small amounts of chemicals
For small reactions

12. Wire Gauze Spreads out the heat produced by a Bunsen burner
Can place a beaker on top

13. Test Tube Holder
DUHHHHH
It holds a test tube

14. Test Tube Rack Holds test tubes in a vertical position.
Allows for clear sight.
Drying rack

15. Ring Stand
Multi-purpose, mostly used as a support to heat chemicals and hold burets.

16. Ring Clamp
One side clamps to ring stand. Place wire gauze on ring and it will hold beakers and flasks for heating. Can hold small beakers or funnels.

17. Test Tube Clamp
Used to clamp onto ring stand to hold test tube.

18. Funnel Holds filter paper for filtering solutions.
Transferring liquids to smaller narrow necked containers.

19. Crucible Tongs
Pick up and hold small hot items like a crucible.

20. Forceps
Used to pick up small items.

21. Bunsen Burner (& Striker)
Controls release of natural gas for burning.
Tubing connects to gas source.
Striker with flint is used to ignite the burner (or matches).

22. Electronic Balance
Measures mass in grams

23. Rubber Stopper
Covers test tube for mixing

24. Scoopula
Used to transfer solids from one container to another

25. Test Tube Brush
Cleans out a test tube

26. Thermometer
Takes temperature (in Celsius)

27. Pipette
Used for measuring very small volumes of liquids

31. Eye Dropper
Used to measure and transfer small amounts of liquids.