Laboratory Apparatus

1. Test Tube
● Are slender containers that hold small
amounts of liquid and are used in scientific
experiments.
● They can range between 50mm to 250mm
in length and 13mm and 20mm in width.
● Test tubes are usually made of glass or
plastic, but the ones that are made of glass
are able to be used in heat-up situations.
● These tubes may also be known as boiling
tubes, as they can be used to raise
solutions and reactions to boiling
temperatures.

2. Beaker
● A beaker is a container used to hold, mix, and pour
liquids or powdered chemicals. Graduated beakers
can measure the volume or amount of liquid that is put
in the beaker.

3. Evaporating Dish
● An evaporating dish is typically shallow and
wide, although some evaporating dishes
may be a bit deeper.
● The purpose of a wide opening is to provide
a large surface exposure, which allows for
quicker evaporation than a narrow vessel
with less surface area would allow
● Evaporating dishes are not meant as
measuring cups, and most are not marked volumetrically.
4. 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.

5. Bunsen Burner
● Used for laboratories mainly used for heating materials.
● The holder is located under the frame, and there is a glass test
tube on the holder.
● The test tube contains other liquid to be heated. Use a mixed
gas with a continuous flame.

6. Balance Beam
● Is used to measure the mass of an object.
● It was the first mass measuring instrument invented.

7. Stirring Rod
● The primary function of a stirring rod is to stir
solution by hand.
● Stirring rods have other uses in the
laboratory, however, including helping to
decant liquid from containers, breaking up
emulsions and inducing crystallization.

8. Graduated Cylinder
● Is used for measuring volumes (amounts) of liquids.
● Also used to determine displacement, which is a measurement of the change
in a volume of water when additional materials are added to it. This means
 that the volume of solid objects and non-aqueous (lacking water) solutions can
be determined using a graduated cylinder.

9. Erlenmeyer Flask
● Is usually used in chemical experiments to mix
different chemicals or contain titration solutions.
● Which is also known as a conical flask consisting of
a wide base with a flat bottom and an inverted
cylindrical neck.
● The name Erlenmeyer is taken from the name of
inventor, Emil Erlenmeyer.

10. Burette
● The function of the acid burette is to
accurately measure and dispense liquid.
● A burette is a long glass tube that has
markings on it for measurement.
● A burette or buret, is a uniform-bore glass
tube with fine gradations and a stopcock at
the bottom, used especially in laboratory
procedures for accurate fluid dispensing and
measurement.
● The burette is commonly used in titrations to
measure precisely how much liquid is used. A
burette is simultaneously occupied by the
presence of a liquid measuring and
transferring this derailment.
● A base burette is used to dispense an alkaline liquid into a solution providing an
excess of hydroxide (OH).
 ● An acid burette is used to dispense an acid into a solution which provides an
excess of hydrogen (H).

11. Medicine Droppers

● The most obvious use for a
medicine dropper is to dispense
small amounts of medicine.
● Many medicine droppers have
markings to help measure liquid,
allowing the user to give an
accurate dosage.

12. Wire Gauze

● Can be used to support a container
(such as a beaker or flask) during
heating.
● When the Bunsen burner flame is
beneath it, with a tripod, the wire gauze
helps to spread the flame (and heat) out
evenly over the container.
● It is frequently used in combination with
an iron ring and ring stand with a Bunsen
burner underneath it.

13. Iron Stand

● Is used in chemistry and other sciences to study the subject that you are
experimenting with/or equipment that you are using.
14. Iron Ring
● An iron ring that holds glassware such as
funnels or other objects, like the wire
gauze or clay triangle for heating with a
Bunsen burner. Often, the iron ring will be
attached to an iron stand.

15. Crucible Tongs

● For holding hot crucibles; also used to pick up other hot objects. NOT to be
used for picking up beakers!

16. Meters Stick

● Tool that is used to measure distance and
the length of objects.
● It tells how long an object is.
● In science, we use a metric system for
measuring.
17. Watch Glass
● A circular, slightly curved piece of glass used in chemistry as a surface to
evaporate a liquid, to hold solid while being weighed, or as a cover for a beaker.

18. Water Bath

● The application range of lab equipment water bath includes reagents warming,
substrates melting or cell cultures, incubation, as well as used to enable certain
chemical reactions to occur at high temperature.
● Some water baths, known as shaking water baths, provide
additional controls that allow users to control the speed and
frequency of the movements. Used primarily to mix two
substances together, a shaking water bath can be used
instead of a standard water bath by turning the shaking
mechanism off.

19. Termometer
● Used to measure the boiling point and freezing point during
science experiments.
● It is also used to measure the temperature of substances. It
measures temperature ranging between -10°C to 200°C.

20. Clay Triangle

● Is used as a support such as when heating crucibles or holding a funnel during
filtering.
● Serves as a supporting structure for items being heated on a Bunsen burner or
other open flame heat source in laboratory settings. The apparatus is shaped
like an equilateral triangle with 60°C.

21. Cork
 ● It is used as a plug so that the volatile substances do not go out of the container
because it covers the empty surface of a container or conical flask.
● It also serves as a stopper because it stops the flow of compounds in the gas
phase.
● Cork is widely used in the fractional distillation. It prevents the vapor of the
container from going out and restricts moisture to come in contact with the
solution.

22. Reagent Bottles

● Also known as media bottles or graduated bottles,
are containers made of glass, plastic, borosilicate, or
related substances, and topped by special caps or
stoppers.
● They are intended to contain chemicals in liquid or
powder form for laboratories and stored in cabinets
or on shelves.

23. Funnel
● Are used to direct liquids into containers that have small
openings.
● In scientific laboratories, funnels are sometimes used to
filter materials, often with the addition of a sieve or filter
paper.

24. Pneumatic Trough

● Is a piece of laboratory apparatus used for
collecting gasses, such as hydrogen,
oxygen, and nitrogen.
● Require a liquid such as water.
● Scientists also have used mercury in
pneumatic troughs, but usually only for the
collection of water-soluble gasses.

25. Test Tube Holder

 ● is used to fix test tubes.
● It is used to hold the test tube in place when it is hot or should not be touched.
● For instance, test tube racks can be used to hold test tubes in place while
heating.
● In addition, when the test tube is heated with liquid or solid, the holder must
tightly fix the test tube on the test tube. Secure firmly when heated.

26. Test Tube Rack

● The test tube rack is an apparatus used in a
laboratory to hold and transport test tubes
during experiments or while examining
cultures.
● They can also accommodate other lab tools,
such as stirring rod and pipettes.

27. Crucible and Cover

● Used for heating certain solids, particularly metals,
to very high temperatures. The cover can be used
to contain any smoke particles.

28. Florence Flask

● Also known as boiling flask that can be used for making
solutions or for holding, containing, collecting, or
sometimes volumetrically measuring chemicals,
samples, solutions, etc. For chemical reactions or other
processes such as mixing, heating, cooling, dissolving,
precipitation boiling (as in distillation) or analysis.

29. Volumetric Flask

● Is glassware used in laboratories for measuring
volume in the preparation of solutions and holds
a precise amount of liquid material when at room
temperature.
● These flasks are calibrated using global standards and come in sizes up to
10,000 millimeters.