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Experiment 1 - Laboratory Apparatus 1
Experiment 1 - Laboratory Apparatus 1
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Rubber tubing is used in fluid transport and for electrical protection. It is used to secure laboratory clamps, such as extension-type utility
clamps, or other attachments to a ring stand or lab frame.
Clay Triangle Cork Borer
Used to hold crucibles and porcelain dishes heated by a Bunsen A cork borer, often used in a chemistry or biology laboratory, is a
burner. Distributes heat evenly over the surface of objects it holds. metal tool for cutting a hole in a cork or rubber stopper to insert glass
tubing.
Crucible and cover Thistle tube
Deflagration Spoons are commonly used in experiments that require Distilling flasks are used to separate mixtures of two liquids with
students to burn phosphorous, sulfur, or other substances at a safe different boiling points. A variety of designs and capacities are
distance. The handle is angled to keep hands away from the heat available to accommodate distillation processes of varying
source. complexities.
Tripod Evaporating Dish
Filtering flasks are used in numerous general laboratory procedures It is used as a container to hold liquids. A Florence flask has a round
for rapid filtration of liquids. Typical flask design includes a conical body, a long neck, and often a flat bottom. It is designed for uniform
shape with a flat bottom, tapered neck, and a sidearm for use in heating, boiling, distillation, and ease of swirling; it is produced in a
vacuum filtration. number of different glass thicknesses to stand different types of use.
Centrifuge machine Funnel or glass funnel
Water trough is used for containing water when collecting gases. Graduated cylinders are long, slender vessels used for measuring
Retort stand used for hanging apparatus. and supporting apparatus the volumes of liquids.
during experiments. Gas jar is used for collecting gases.
A pH meter is an instrument used to measure the acidity or Separatory funnels are used in the lab for liquid-liquid extractions,
alkalinity of a solution separating a mixture's components into two solvent phases of
different densities. The higher-density liquid sinks to the bottom and
can then be drained from
a valve, leaving the less-dense liquid in the funnel.
A mortar is a vessel in which substances are ground or crushed with A volumetric flask is lab glass or plasticware used to prepare a
a pestle. solution. It is used to make up a solution to a known volume.
Volumetric flasks are used to measure volumes much more precisely
than beakers or Erlenmeyer flasks.
Wash bottle Acid burette
a condenser is laboratory apparatus used to condense vapors – that Wire gauze is an important piece of supporting equipment in a
is, turn them into liquids – by cooling them down. laboratory as glassware cannot be heated directly with the flame of a
Bunsen burner, and requires the use of wire gauze to diffuse the heat,
helping to protect the glassware
Centrifuge tube Fume hood