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Lab Safety and Instruments Sec. 1
Lab Safety and Instruments Sec. 1
BIOCHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT
CBF-103.
SECTION NO. 1
Lab Safety
RULES
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General Safety Rules
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General Safety Rules
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General Safety Rules
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Glassware Safety
1. Chipped or cracked glassware should
not be used. Show it to the teacher.
2. Broken glassware should not be
disposed of in a classroom trashcan.
There is a special glass disposal
container for it.
3. When pouring liquids into glassware,
make sure the container you are
pouring into is resting on a table at
least a hands breadth from the edge.
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Glassware Safety
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Chemical Safety
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Chemical Safety
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Chemical Safety
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Heating Safety
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Heating Safety
3. Always point the top ends of test tubes
that are being heated away from people.
4. When heating a test tube, move it
around slowly over the flame to
distribute the heat evenly.
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Heating Safety
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First Aid
Injury: Burns
To Do: Immediately flush with cold
water until burning sensation is
lessened.
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First Aid
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First Aid
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SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
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LAB Equipments
OBJECTIVES:
For student to be familiar with the use of
the following:
A) GLASSWARES
1-pipettes
2-beakers
3-conical flasks
4-Graduated Cylinders
5-Burettes
B) pH meter.
C) Centrifuges.
D) Spectrophotometer.
1- Pipettes:
Volumetric (Bulb) pipettes:
❖ These are designed to deliver
the exact amount of solution.
Has only one point of
graduation.
Graduated pipettes:
❖ Which are graduated along
the stem, but not at the tip.
❖ They are less accurate than
the volumetric pipettes,but
can deliver small fractions of
the total capacity of the
pipette.
Other types of pipettes:
These include the micropipette,
which are used to measure small
quantities that the regular pipettes
cannot measure, i.e micro litter
amounts (µl.).
Fixed volume micropipette:
This delivers only the exact volume
which is written on the top of the
pipette (e.g 20 µl, 100 µl, 1000 µl, …
etc.).
Adjustable or variable volume
micropipette:
This can be calibrated to deliver
any amount of solution which is
written on the side of the pipette
Multichannel micropipette
2-Beakers:
Available in different volumes.
3-Conical Flasks:
Used in titration procedures and other different
uses, also available in different volumes.
4-Graduated Cylinders:
For measuring the volume of solutions
and dilution procedures.
5-Burette:
For addition of volumes in titration procedures.
B- pH meter