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