Electronic Balance

Use: to mass less than 200 grams of a substance

Important:Important:Easily Easily broken by broken by placing too placing too much mass much mass on the panon the pan

Hot Plate

Use: to heat substances when a burner is not necessary or safe. Sometimes may have a magnetic stirrer as well.

Material: metal with porcelain top

Safety Goggles

Material: plastic, splash resistantUse: to be worn at all times during labs in which chemicals, heat or glassware is used.

Filter Paper

Material: paper circles, various sizesUse: folded in quarters, used in funnels to filter solutions

Mortar and Pestle

Material: porcelainUse: to grind crystals and lumpy chemicals to a powder

Weighing Trays or Weigh Boats

Material: Flexible plastic in various sizesUse: to keep chemicals off the balance pan.

Scoopula

Material: Metal or metal with wood handleUse: to transfer solid chemicals

Thermometer

Material: alcohol (red) or mercury in glass (not likely), common range -10°C to 110°CUse: to measure temperature

Important:Important:Never use as a stirring rodNever use as a stirring rod

Pipet

Material: glass or plastic, graduated, various sizes Use: to measure solution volumes, less accurate than a volumetric pipet

Important:Important:Never pipet by mouthNever pipet by mouth

Pipet Safety Bulb

Material: rubberUse: to fill a pipet with solution

Important:Important:Never pipet by mouthNever pipet by mouth

Stirring Rod

Material: solid glass or plasticUse: to stir solutions

Don’t be confused!

Crucible and cover

Material: porcelainUse: to heat small amounts of solid substance at high temperatures

Important:Important:Use tongs with hot cruciblesUse tongs with hot crucibles

Crucible tongs

Material: iron, nickel or brassUse: to pick up and hold small usually very hot items

Important:Important:beware of hot porcelain beware of hot porcelain or glasswareor glassware

Clay triangle

Material: wire frame with porcelain supportsUse: used to support a crucible

Transfer Pipet

Material: plasticUse: to dispense and transfer small volumes of solution

Beral pipet - thin stem

Material: plasticUse: to dispense and store small quantities of solution

24-well spot plate

Material: plastic, may have coverUse: reaction vessels for small quantities of solution

96-well spot plate

Material: plasticUse: in place of test tubes in microchemistry

Bunsen burner and burner tubing

Use: to heat chemicals (dry or in solution) in beakers, test tubes, flasks and crucibles

Material: metal, connected to gas supply with burner tubing

Striker

Material: metal with flintUse: to create a spark to light gas burners

Wire gauze or wire mesh

Material: metal mesh, may have ceramic centerUse: to spread the heat of a burner flame

Watch glass

Material: glassUse: to cover an evaporating dish or beaker

Test tube clamp or test tube holder

Material: metal spring mechanismUse: to hold test tubes or glass tubing

Test tube

Material: glass, various sizesUse: reaction vessel, may be heated

Important:Important:Beware of hot glass. Use a Beware of hot glass. Use a test tube holder when test tube holder when heating. Never point a test heating. Never point a test tube at yourself or other tube at yourself or other when heating.when heating.

Test tube rack

Material: wood, plastic or metalUse: holds test tubes in a vertical position

Test tube brush

Material: bristle with wire handle, various sizes Use: to scrub small diameter glassware

Utility clamp

Material: metal, with or without coated endsUse: to support equipment on a ring stand, this one would need a clamp holder as well

Ring clamp and clamp holder

Material: metal Use: as a support on a ring stand

Ring clamp - one piece

Funnel

Material: glass or plasticUse: Hold filter paper for filtering solutions

Wash bottle

Material: flexible plasticUse: hold vertically and squeeze sides to dispense water, typically deionized water only

Graduated cylinder or graduate

Material: glass or plastic, various sizesUse: to measure approximate volumes

Important:Important:Never heatNever heat

Erlenmeyer flask

Material: glass, various sizesUse: may be heated, useful for swirling solutions, used in traditional titrations

Volumetric flask

Use: for making and storing solution. The score on the neck indicates an accurate volume.

Material: glass or plastic, various sizes

Beaker

Material: glass or plastic, various sizesUse: for holding solutions or dry chemicals, not for measuring, only gives approximate volume

Important:Important:Beware of hot glass, use tongsBeware of hot glass, use tongs

Beaker tongs

Material: metal with or without rubber coated tipsUse: to move hot beakers and glassware

Evaporating dish

Material: porcelainUse: to contain small volumes of liquid being heated or evaporated. May be heated.

Ring Stand

Separatory Funnel

Glass or plastic with stopper and stopcockUsed to separate solutions of different phases

Metal rod fixed upright in a heavy metal baseUsed to support a variety of clamps

Buret

Double buret clamp

Stopcock

Material: glass with stopcock, graduated, VERY EXPENSIVEUse: to measure volumes of solution in titrations

Material: metal or plasticUse: to support burets on a ring stand

Fleaker

Erlenmeyer flask

Beaker(s)

96-well spot plate

24-well spot plate