Louise Rica M.

Lagahit
BSPH 1D

Common laboratory apparatus/equipment’s

Common Laboratory Apparatus Uses/function in the laboratory.

• Beaker - Beakers are useful as a reaction

container or to hold liquid or solid
samples. They are also used to catch
liquids from titrations and filtrates from
filtering operations. Laboratory Burners
are sources of heat.

- A Bunsen burner, named after Robert

• Bunsen Bunsen, is a kind of gas burner used as
burner laboratory equipment; it produces a
single open gas flame, and is used for
heating, sterilization, and combustion.
The gas can be natural gas (which is
mainly methane) or a liquefied petroleum
gas, such as propane, butane, or a
mixture.

• Electronic - Electronic balance is an instrument

Balance used in the accurate measurement of
weight of materials. It is a significant
instrument for the laboratories for precise
measurement of chemicals which are
used in various experiments. Laboratory
electronic balance provides digital results
of measurement.

• Burette - A burette is used to dispense small

volumes of liquid called aliquots, or
sometimes gas, with high accuracy. It
 consists of a long glass tube with a valve
at one end to control the flow of liquid.
Burettes serve essentially the same
purpose as a pipette.
• Erlenmeyer - Erlenmeyer flasks are used to contain
flask liquids and for mixing, heating, cooling,
incubation, filtration, storage, and other
liquid-handling processes. Their slanted
sides and narrow necks allow the
contents to be mixed by swirling without
the risk of spills, which is useful for
titrations and for boiling liquids.

• Florence flask - It is used as a container to hold liquids.

A Florence flask has a round body, a
long neck, and often a flat bottom. It is
designed for uniform heating, boiling,
distillation and ease of swirling; it is
produced in several different glass
thicknesses to stand different types of
use.

• Graduated - Graduated cylinders are long, slender

cylinder vessels used for measuring the volumes
of liquids. They are not intended for
mixing, stirring, heating, or weighing.
Graduated cylinders commonly range in
size from 5 mL to 500 mL.

• Beaker tongs - Beaker tongs are used to hold and move

beakers containing hot liquids.

• Pipette - Pipettes are an essential laboratory tool

used to dispense measured volumes of
liquids. Pipettes most commonly work
by creating a partial vacuum above the
chamber that holds the liquid and
selectively releasing this vacuum to draw
up and dispense according to the
preferred volume.
• Stirring Rod - A stirring rod is used for mixing
liquids, or solids and liquids. Stir rods
are used as part of proper laboratory
technique when decanting supernatants
because the contact helps to negate the
adhesion between the side of the
glassware and the supernatant that is
responsible for the liquid running down
the side.
• Test tube - Test tubes are widely used by chemists
to hold, mix, or heat small quantities of
solid or liquid chemicals, especially for
qualitative experiments and assays. Their
round bottom and straight sides minimize
mass loss when pouring, make them
easier to clean, and allow convenient
monitoring of the contents.

• Test tube holder - A test tube holder is used to hold test

tubes. It is used for holding a test tube in
place when the tube is hot or should not
be touched. For example, a test tube
holder can be used to hold a test tube
while it is being heated.

• Thermometer - A laboratory thermometer is 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 degree Celsius and
110 degrees Celsius.

• Watch glass - A watch glass is a round, concave glass

dish used for evaporation in chemistry. It
can also be employed for weighing solids
and as a lid for flasks and beakers.
• Wire gauze - Wire gauze is a sheet of thin metal that
has net-like patterns or a wire mesh.
Wire gauze is placed on the support ring
that is attached to the retort stand
between the Bunsen burner and the
glassware to support the beakers, flasks,
or other glassware during heating. It is
used as a support for different containers
when they are placed across a support
ring above the Bunsen burner to spread
the heat of the burner flame. It also
supports flasks and beakers. when the
Bunsen burner flame is beneath it with a
tripod, it helps to spread the flame out
evenly over the container.
• Triple Beam - The triple beam balance is an
Balance instrument used to measure mass very
precisely. Such devices typically have a
reading error of ±0.05 grams. The triple
beam balance can be used to measure
mass directly from the objects, find mass
by difference for liquid, and measure out
substances.
• Volumetric flask - A volumetric flask is used when it is
necessary to know both precisely and
accurately the volume of the solution that
is being prepared. Like volumetric
pipets, volumetric flasks come in
different sizes, depending on the volume
of the solution being prepared.

• Mortar & pestle - A mortar is a vessel in which

substances are ground or crushed with a
pestle. A pestle is a tool used to crush,
mash or grind materials in a mortar. In
solid state chemistry a mortar and pestle
is often used to prepare reactants for a
solid state synthesis (the ceramic
method).
• Pipestem triangle - A pipestem triangle is used to support
crucibles or other lab dishes that are
being heated on a burner or other heat
source. The supported items are placed.
on the iron wire covering of the pipestem
and heated directly. The triangle
decreases oxidation and prevent the
wires from drooping.
- A laboratory iron tripod is a portable,
• Tripod stand three-legged platform equipment, which
is usually made of lightweight metal
such as stainless steel or iron so that it
can be moved conveniently within the
lab. The main usage is to support or hold
the flasks and beakers during
experiments.

• Funnels - Laboratory funnels are used to channel

liquids or fine-grained chemicals
(powders) into labware with a narrow
neck or opening. Often, they are made of
plastic such as polypropylene. Reusable
products can be sterilized in an
autoclave.

• Crucible - A lab crucible is a type of laboratory

glassware used to burn, melt, or mix
solid chemical compounds over a burner.
It can hold all kinds of substances,
materials, and fluids. It is also used in
quantitative gravimetric chemical
analysis.

• Well Plate - 96-well plates are designed for all

common instruments and can be used for
applications such as sample collection,
compound preparation, combinatorial
chemistry, high throughput screening,
nucleic acid purification, bacterial
culture growth, and plate replication.
• Striker - Strikers are used to start Bunsen
burners. The striker itself is constructed
with a rough surface positioned opposite
a piece of flint. These sparks when
created in the presence of a flammable
gas such as propane will start a fire or for
our purposes a Bunsen burner.
• Scoopula - Scoopula is a brand name of a spatula-
like scoop utensil used primarily in
chemistry lab settings to transfer solids:
to a weigh paper for weighing, to a cover
slip to measure melting point, or a
graduated cylinder, or to a watch glass
from a flask or beaker through scraping.
• Forceps - Forceps are the "tweezers" in an
organic chem lab. They come in many
sizes and shapes, sometimes old and
discolored, sometimes new and shiny,
sometimes sharp and pointed, sometimes
flat-ended. They all work fine! Forceps
are used for any situation where you
must grab a small item and cannot do it
with your fingers.
• Evaporating dish - An evaporating dish is a tool used in
labs to separate liquids and solids from a
solution by allowing the water to
evaporate off into the air. The result is
either a more concentrated solution or
the solid precipitate of the dissolved
substance.
• Dropper - An eye dropper, also known as a
Pasteur pipette, or dropper, is a device
used to transfer small quantities of
liquids. They are used in the laboratory
and to dispense small amounts of liquid
medicines.
• Crucible tongs - Crucible tongs are welded steel tools
used to lift a hot crucible from a furnace
or for other items which cannot be
handled with bare hands. Crucible tongs
may also be used to prevent any
inaccuracies regarding mass
measurements as any moisture or oil will
affect the readings and accuracy.
 • Petri dish - Petri dish is a shallow cylindrical,
round glass that is used in laboratories to
culture different microorganisms and
cells. To study microorganisms like
bacteria & viruses under great
observation, it is important to keep them
isolated from other species or elements.

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