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Lab Equipment

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