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Common Laboratory Apparatus Names and Uses

Common laboratory apparatus include: 1. Iron stands and rings, which support items like flasks, beakers, and funnels above the work surface using a clamp or triangle. 2. Test tubes, beakers, Erlenmeyer flasks, which hold liquids and allow viewing, mixing, heating, and other liquid processes. 3. Equipment like Bunsen burners, which perform functions like heating chemicals, sterilization, and mixing liquids. Other apparatus include droppers, thermometers, stirring rods, spring scales, wire gauzes, tripods, tongs, funnels, graduated cylinders, mortar and pestles, brushes, bottles, and test tube racks.

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Common Laboratory Apparatus Names and Uses

Common laboratory apparatus include: 1. Iron stands and rings, which support items like flasks, beakers, and funnels above the work surface using a clamp or triangle. 2. Test tubes, beakers, Erlenmeyer flasks, which hold liquids and allow viewing, mixing, heating, and other liquid processes. 3. Equipment like Bunsen burners, which perform functions like heating chemicals, sterilization, and mixing liquids. Other apparatus include droppers, thermometers, stirring rods, spring scales, wire gauzes, tripods, tongs, funnels, graduated cylinders, mortar and pestles, brushes, bottles, and test tube racks.

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Common laboratory apparatus names and uses

1. Iron Stand supports the iron ring when heating substances or


mixtures in a flask or beaker (using a Bunsen burner) clamps can also
be used to hold glasswares on the iron ring.

2. Iron rings are commonly used in chemistry laboratories for


supporting apparatus above the work surface, for example: a tapered
item such as a filter funnel or separatory funnel. a clay triangle, which
itself supports an item such as a crucible.

3. Test tube. These are famous glass tubes designed to hold liquid
and chemicals. Most of these tubes are up to 15 centimetres long.
They have no marks. But they are transparent and make it easy to view
what you have poured into each one, transport liquids, and sometimes
even measure chemicals.

4. A bunsen burner .What laboratory apparatus is used for heating?


Bunsen burners are the most common equipments that perform multiple
functions. It not only heats various chemicals to create a particular
reaction, but also works as a sterilizer.

5.Beakers When you need to measure liquid to perform an experiment or chemical reaction,
you can use special containers called beakers. They are wider and bigger than regular test
tubes, and they have a flat bottom. Used to hold, mix, and heat liquids
6. Erlenmeyer flask Erlenmeyer flasks are used to contain
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.

7. A dropper When you look at a dropper, you understand


that each drop matters. This particular tool helps to add
liquids or other solutions drop-wise, leaving no room for
mistakes.

8. Thermometer This common laboratory equipment is well-


known in each household. However, thermometers that
are used for conducting tests and experiments are not
home-like pieces even though they are also used to
measure temperature.

9. Stirring rod Liquids are often mixed in chemistry, but you cannot
stir them with your finger. Special stirring rods can help with mixing
several liquids or heating them in the classroom or a workroom.

10. Spring scales. It is another laboratory apparatus used to


measure the mass of objects. Unlike beam balances, spring
scales do not measure the material against another mass.
Instead, it measures the distance when the material gets
displaced due to its weight.
11. A wire gauze Made of thin metal and looking like a mesh,
this equipment is designed to help to heat glassware that
cannot be directly heated by the burner or flame. It protects
the glass tubes from being shocked by the fire and broken
into pieces.

12. A tripod Humans cannot carry the heated wire gauzes in


hands. Thus, they need a piece of additional equipment that can
perform this task. A tripod is a stand with three legs that can
support the heating wire gauze during experiments.

13. Beaker Tongs


Used to pick up beakers.

Crucible Tongs
Used to hold crucibles.

Tongs can help to grab the tube or material and conduct a test. Many contemporary
tongs can even hold beakers.

14.Lab funnels. These are special funnels that can work with chemicals
and make sure you spill nothing when pouring the substance into a test
tube or a different container, separating liquids, filtering materials, etc.

15.Graduated Cylinder Used to measure a precise volume of a


liquid.
16. Mortar and Pestle. Used to crush and grind materials.

17. A test tube brush or spout brush is a brush used for cleaning test
tubes and narrow mouth laboratory glassware, such as graduated
cylinders, burettes, and Erlenmeyer flasks.

18. 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

19. A test tube rack is a piece of laboratory equipment used to


hold multiple test tubes upright at the same time. 

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