lab equipment

Goggles

Visual: Protective clear glasses with a strap. Purpose: Used to protect the eyes from sharp objects, chemical splashes, flying debris, and heat during laboratory experiments.

Beaker

Visual: A cylindrical glass container with a flat bottom and a small pouring lip. Purpose: Used for holding, mixing, and heating liquids; it provides only approximate volume measurements, not for accurate measurements, has measurements on sides

Erlenmeyer Flask

Visual: A glass container with a flat, wide base and a narrow, vertical neck. Purpose: Designed to allow for the easy swirling of liquids to mix them without the risk of splashing, not good for measuring, for mixing, heating, cooling, filtration and storage

Florence Flask

Visual: A flask featuring a round, bulbous body and a long, thin neck. Purpose: Used for uniform heating, boiling, reaction, storage vessel of liquids; also known as a boiling flask.

Graduated Cylinder

Visual: A tall, narrow vessel marked with precise measurement lines. Purpose: Used for the accurate measurement of liquid volumes, milliliters, not for storage

Bunsen Burner

Visual: A vertical metal burner tube connected by a hose to a gas source. Purpose: volatile gas and flame used for heating, sterilization, and combustion.

Striker

Used with Bunsen burner to give spark for flame

Hot Plate

Visual: A portable electric plate with a flat heating surface and control knobs. Purpose: Acts as a flameless heat source for warming substances in glassware instead of Bunsen burner or when you have no access to volatile gas, need electric source for this

Triple Beam Balance

Visual: A mechanical scale with a pan and three horizontal beams containing sliding weights. Purpose: Used to determine the mass of an object in grams (g).

Mass

Amount of matter in an object, not the same as weight

Funnel

Visual: A cone-shaped tool with a narrow neck or pipe at the bottom. Purpose: Used to pour liquids or fine-grained substances into containers with small openings or to assist in filtration.

Ruler

Visual: A flat strip marked with units of length. Purpose: Used to measure the length of objects in centimeters (cm) or millimeters (mm).

Thermometer

Visual: A thin glass tube containing a temperature-sensitive liquid and a scale. Purpose: An instrument used to measure the temperature of a substance, typically in degrees Celsius (^\circ C), the sped at which the particles move, the hotter the faster

Test Tube

Visual: A thin glass cylinder with an open top and a rounded, closed bottom. Purpose: Used to hold, mix, or heat small quantities of chemical reagents, used to run test, should be put in holder

Tongs

Visual: Scissor-like metal tools with specific gripping ends. Purpose: Used to safely handle, grip, and lift hot lab equipment, such as beakers or crucibles.

Pipette

Visual: A slender glass or plastic tube, often with volume markings. Purpose: Used for the precise transfer of small, measured volumes of liquid from one container to another. Very accurate for measuring.

Pipette Bulb

Visual: A small, squeezable rubber bulb. Purpose: Attached to a pipette to provide the suction necessary to draw liquid into the tube.

Spring Scale

Visual: A device containing a spring, a hook, and a measurement scale. Purpose: Used to measure the force or weight of an object in Newtons (N) or pounds