Lab Equipment: Principles of Technology Assignment

Name: Wasi Islam

Directions: Complete the chart below using the help of the internet. For each piece of lab
equipment, find a picture and write ONE sentence describing its use/purpose in your own words for
credit. Each space is 2 points a piece.

Lab Equipment Name Picture Use/purpose

1. Beaker A beaker is basically used for

laboratory experiments where it
is used for mixing, heating, and
stirring liquids.

2. Graduated Cylinder A graduated cylinder, also

known as a measuring cylinder
or mixing cylinder is a common
piece of laboratory equipment
used to measure the volume of
a liquid.

3. Electronic balance It allows to quickly and

accurately measure the mass
of a substance to a level of
accuracy impossible for
traditional balances to achieve.
4. Weigh boat Weigh Boats are used to weigh
substances that will be
transferred to another vessel as
well as protect the scale tray.

5. Plastic pipette These are used for transferring

small amounts of liquids,
but are not graduated
calibrated for any particular
volume.

6. Thermometer It can measure the temperature

of a solid such as food, a liquid
such as water, or a gas such as
air.

7. Mortar and pestle Mortar and pestle are

implements used since ancient
times to prepare ingredients or
substances by crushing and
grinding them into a fine paste
or powder in the kitchen,
laboratory, and pharmacy.
8. Bunsen burner A Bunsen burner is a laboratory
instrument that can be used to
provide a single, continuous
flame by mixing gas with air in
a controlled fashion.

9. Stirring rod 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.

10. Watch glass Watch glass is used to hold

solids while they are being
weighed or to cover a beaker.
11. Erlenmeyer flask The Erlenmeyer flask has
diverse uses such as holding
and measuring chemical liquid
samples, but can also be used
to mix, heat and boil chemicals.

12. Crucible Modern crucibles may be small

laboratory utensils for
conducting high-temperature
chemical reactions and
analyses or large industrial
vessels for melting and
calcining

13. Caliper Calipers are meant for

measuring thicknesses and
internal or external diameters
inaccessible to a scale.

14. Magnetic compass Magnetic compass, in

navigation or surveying, an
instrument for determining
direction on the surface of
Earth by means of a magnetic
pointer that aligns itself with
Earth's magnetic field.
15. Convex lens Convex lenses are used in
eyeglasses for correcting
farsightedness, where the
distance between the eye's lens
and retina is too short, as a
result of which the focal point
lies behind the retina.

16. Stopwatch A stopwatch is a handheld

timepiece designed to measure
the amount of time that elapses
between its activation and
deactivation.

17. Metric rulers A metric ruler is used to

measure length. It is divided
into units of centimeters. Each
number on the ruler represents
1 centimeter.

18. Spring Scales Main uses of spring balances

are to weigh heavy loads such
as trucks, storage silos, and
material carried on a conveyor
belt.
19. Multimeter A digital multimeter is a test tool
used to measure two or more
electrical values principally
voltage volts, current amps,
and resistance ohms.

20. Plane mirror A plane mirror is a flat mirror

that reflects light and produces
a virtual image without the
interference of an inward or
outward curve.

21. Tuning fork a tuning fork is a two-pronged

metal fork that can be used as
an acoustic resonator.

22. Spectroscope A spectroscope is a device that

measures the spectrum of light.
23. Protractor Protractor, any of a group of
instruments used to construct
and measure plane angles.

24. Prism Prism, in optics, piece of glass

or other transparent material
cut with precise angles and
plane faces, useful for
analyzing and reflecting light.

25. Inclined plane Inclined plane, simple machine

consisting of a sloping surface,
used for raising heavy bodies.