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Lab Equipment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Beaker Tongs | Used to handle beakers containing hot liquids (Not to be used with crucibles) |
| Beakers | Wide cylindrical glass container used to hold hot solids or liquids that are heated or reacted |
| Bunsen Burner | Consists of a gas inlet, burner tube, air control vent, and gas control |
| Buret | Graduated glass tube with a plug at one end. Used for measuring the volume of a liquid or gas |
| Clay Triangle | Used to support containers (crucibles) when being heated over a bunsen burner |
| Crucible and Cover | Used as a container to heat substances to a very high temperature |
| Crucible Tongs | Used to handle hot crucibles or other hot objects (NOT beakers) |
| Dropper | Used to transfer small volumes of liquid |
| Erlenmeyer Flask | Triangular shaped glass container used to hold solids or liquids that react without heating or react with gentle heating |
| Evaporating Disk | Used to evaporate excess liquid from a solid |
| File | Used primarily for cutting glass tubing |
| Forceps | Used to pick up small objects |
| Funnel | Used to pour liquid into a narrow container |
| Glass Stirring Rod | Used to manually stir solutions or transfer a single drop of solution |
| Graduated Cylinder | Used to accurately measure volumes of liquids |
| Iron Ring | Used to hold equipment above to work table |
| Mortar and Pestle | Used to ground up solids into fine powder |
| Reagent Bottle | Used to hold liquid or powder chemicals |
| Ring Stand | Used to give an area for test tube clamps and ring clamps to clamp onto |
| Rubber Stoppers | Acts as a cork but doesn’t allow any vapour to leave the container |
| Safety Goggles | Used to protect you eyes during experiments |
| Scopula | Used to help dispense solid chemicals from their containers |
| Spot Plate | Used to preform many small scale reactions at the same time |
| Test Tube Rack | Used for holding and and organizing test tubes on the lab counter (Plastic versions may melt if they come in contact with very hot test tubes) |
| Test Tube Holder | Used to hold a test tube that is too hot to handle |
| Test Tubes | Glass finger-length containers used for reacting and heating small amounts of chemicals |
| Test Tube Brush | Used to clean test tubes and graduated cylinders |
| Thermometer | Used to measure temperature |
| Utility Clamp | Used to secure test tubes and erlenmeyer flasks to the ring stand |
| Wash Bottle | Has a spout that delivers a wash solution of water to a specific area |
| Wire Gauze | Sits on the iron ring to provide a place to stand a beaker or and erlenmeyer flask and spread the heat uniformly on the bottom of the glassware |