1. Visuals, Spellings, and Uses The Right tool for the job!
Lab Equipment
Visuals, Spellings, and Uses
The Right tool for the job!

2. Beakers Beakers are used for holding various chemicals.
Not for measuring precisely.
Sizes vary.

3. Graduated Cylinder
Used to precisely measure the volume of liquids or run experiments.
Read from the meniscus at eye level.
Plastic ring always on top if applicable.
Sizes vary.

4. Erlenmeyer Flask
Used to approximately measure the volume various liquids.
Useful for mixing by swirling
Sizes vary.

5. Florence Flask Used to boil liquids.
Also used to collect gases, if applicable.
Sizes vary.

6. Volumetric Flask Used to prepare precise standard solutions.
They are only good for 1 specific volume.
Comes in many sizes

7. Reagent Bottle
Used to store, transport, or view reagents such as acids or bases.

8. Rubber Stoppers Used to close flasks and test tubes.
The holes allow the insertion of glass tubing, probes, or thermometers as needed by the experiment.

9. Test Tubes and Rack Used to hold chemicals/tubes while experimenting.
Not for measuring precisely.
Waft!
Aim away from faces.
Sizes vary.
Label tubes.

10. Distillation Flask
Used to separate liquids based on boiling point.

11. Buret and Buret Clamp Used for precisely measuring dispensed liquids
Holds buret to ring stand.
Buret
Double buret clamp
Single buret clamp

12. Ring Stand and Ring Clamps
Base/Pole of set-up for experimenting.
Holds glassware in place for heating or evaporating.

13. Test Tube Brushes Cleaning.
You must clean tubes before and after you use.

14. Test Tube Holder
Used for carrying or holding hot test tubes.

15. Thermometer
Measuring temperature.
Use metric!!

16. Hot Plate
Used to heat substances.

17. Bunsen Burner
Used to heat substances quickly or if > 400oC is needed.
Do not use with flammable substances.

18. Rubber Tubing Used for a variety of things. Example:
Connecting Bunsen burner to gas valve stem.
Connecting glass tubing together.

19. Wire Mesh or Gauze Used to absorb and spread the heat of flame.
Keeps glassware from cracking and breaking.
Part of ring stand set-up.

20. Clay Triangle Used to hold a crucible in place on a ring stand.
Also helps absorb and spread heat of flame.
Part of ring stand set-up.

21. Crucible and Cover Used for heating substances.
Can withstand high direct heat.

22. Crucible Tongs
Used to carry crucible.

23. Beaker Tongs
Used to carry beakers.

24. Mortar and Pestle
Used to grind substances into powder or slurry.

25. Scoopula Used to scoop chemical powders. Not a measuring instrument.
Ours do not have handles.

26. Stirring Rods
Used to stir substances.
Clean in between uses.

27. Striker
Used to ignite gas from a Bunsen burner.
Do not waste flint.

28. Watch Glass
Used to show chemical reactions.

29. Evaporating Dish
Used to evaporate excess liquids.

30. Centrifuge
Used to separate suspensions (solids from liquids).

31. Meter Stick Used to precisely measure length. 1m = 10dm 1m = 100cm
1m = 1000mm

32. Funnel
Used to safely transfer substances from one container to another.

33. Dropper and Bottle
Used to measure out small amounts of liquids for experiments.

34. Wash Bottle Usually contains deionized water.
Handy for rinsing glassware and for dispensing small amounts of dH2O for chemical reactions.

35. Goggles and Apron Used to protect your eyes and clothing from damage.
These are a must in lab!!

36. Inoculating or Flame Loop
Used to collect samples from colonies (ex. Bacteria)
Also used to test the spectra of chemicals.

37. Digital Balance Used to accurately measure mass.
Only up to 200g in our labs.

38. Pipet, Pump, and Bulb
Used to precisely measure the volume of liquids in small amounts.

39. Berol Pipet
Disposable pipets used to transfer small amounts of chemicals.
Graduated pipets can precisely measure small amounts of chemicals.

40. Capillary Tubes
Used to collect liquid through the process of capillary action.