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. Shower
If a chemical is spilled over a large part of the body (all over clothes or legs)

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

8. Stirring Rod Glass rod used for stirring and helping pour
BE CAREFUL! They break easily

9. Erlenmeyer Flask
May be heated
Used for mixing chemicals

10. Volumetric Flask Used to make solutions of specific volume
NEVER heated
Has calibration line to signify volume

11. Graduated Cylinder
Measures volumes of liquids

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

13. More Test Tubes 13 x 100 mm test tubes Ignition tube

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

15. Test Tube Holder
DUHHHHH
It holds a test tube

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

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

18. Ring Clamp
One side clamps to ring stand. Place wire gauze on ring and it will hold beakers and flasks for heating.
Holds funnels for filtration

19. Utility Clamp Attaches to ring stand
Used to hold flasks and thermometers

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

21. Powder Funnel Transferring solids/powders into flasks and/or beakers.
Note the wider spout.

22. Watch Glass Used as a beaker cover
Can be used to place small amounts of chemicals on
(looks like a contact lens)

23. Evaporating Dish
Holds small volumes of liquids being evaporated.

24. Well Plate
Used for mixing small amounts of chemicals together

25. Plastic Wash Bottle
Dispenses water for rinsing equipment

26. Crucible and Lid
Holds small amounts of chemicals for heating at high temperatures.

27. Clay Triangle
Supports a crucible in a ring stand apparatus.

28. Crucible Tongs Pick up and hold small hot items like a crucible.
Not for holding glassware

29. Beaker Tongs
Pick up and hold ONLY hot beakers.
Has rubber tips

30. Utility Tongs Pick up and hold flasks or hot metal.
Not for holding Beakers!!

31. Forceps
Used to pick up small items.

32. 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).

33. Triple Beam Balance
Measures mass in grams
Measures to 0.01 place

34. Rubber Stopper
Covers test tube for mixing

35. Spatula
Used to transfer solids from one container to another

36. Test Tube Brush
Cleans out a test tube

37. Triangular File
Triangular files are used primarily to cut glass rod, a skill that your instructor will share with you if it becomes useful.

38. Thermometer
Takes temperature (in Celsius)

39. Mohr Pipet Used for measuring very small volumes of liquids
Needs a bulb to draw fluid into pipet

40. Rubber Bulb
Used to draw liquid into a pipet

41. Plastic Pipet Used for dropping small amounts of liquid
Not accurate for measurements

42. Buret
Used for measuring very small volumes of liquids and dispensing them

43. Double Buret Clamps
Double Buret clamps are used to hold burets used in titration.

44. Kimwipes
Used only for drying glassware
Lint-free

45. Glass Plate
Used to cover glassware
Also used to put samples onto

46. Gas Collecting Bottle
Used to collect gas during an experiment