GLASSWARES, INSTRUMENTS AND EQUIPMENT USED IN MICROBIOLOGY Flashcards
used to heat chemicals, hold and heat liquids, grow bacteria and collect fluids from the body like blood or semen.
Test tubes
Used when the microorganism needs to undergo culture media and for substances that must be protected from contamination. It is also used to make broth, agar deep, and agar slant.
Screw capped tubes
hold liquids during centrifugation, which divides a sample into its constituents by quickly rotating it around a fixed axis.
Centrifuge tubes
It is used to observe microorganisms undergo or perform fermentation.
Smith tubes
Used to detect production of gas by microorganisms. An inverted small tube that is initially filled with the solution where microbial growth will happen.
Durham tubes
Fermentation tubes
Smith tubes
Durham tubes
used in laboratories to culture different cells and microorganisms
Plain petri dish
used to contain several media selectively and simultaneously
Petri dish w/ division:
Used to hold liquids and for mixing heating and cooling
Erlenmeyer Flasks
Used to accurately make and prepare solutions and any other liquids to a known volume
Volumetric Flasks
useful for the transfer of milliliter volumes of liquid.
Serologic
used for the transfer and dispense of a single, specific quantity of liquid to a very high degree of accuracy.
Volumetric
Flasks
Erlenmeyer
Volumetric
Pipettes
Serologic
Volumetric
It is used to hold solids while weighing, cover beakers to prevent dust and other particles from entering, and to evaporate liquids.
Watch Glass
are utilized to direct liquids or fine-grained substances (powders) into narrow-necked labware.
Funnel
Used by chemists to evaporate liquids and cover samples during preparation.
Watch glass
It is used to measure different quantities and volumes of liquids, chemicals, and solutions accurately
Graduated cylinder
a piece of glass used to study specimens under a microscope.
Glass slides
It is used to transfer and take a sample of microorganisms in a culture or a petri dish.
Inoculating Loop
Used for transferring and taking solid or dense media.
Inoculating Needle
Racks
Staining
Test tube
Slant
produced from polyoxymethylene and is designed for simultaneous staining of up to 25 microscope slides for efficient staining process.
Staining Racks
commonly seen in the laboratory and is used to hold upright multiple test tubes at the same time whilst securing safety.
Test tube Racks
used to hold the slants at the degree it is required to be placed in to be dried after the media has been inserted into the tube
Slant Racks
It is used for heating,sterilization of laboratory equipment and combustion for reactions.
Bunsen burner
This is used for gripping and manipulating small or delicate objects.
Forceps
This is used when we need to put our samples in a constant and continual temperature for a long time. Its equipment is preferred as a heat source since open flames like bunsen burners fluctuate in temperature and are more prone to accidents.
Water bath
is widely used in the medical industry to sterilize the equipment and other materials that are used in a laboratory
Hot air sterilizer
This is used in clinical laboratory settings for separation of liquid and solid components
Centrifuge
This is used for disinfection and sterilization, wherein, it operates at high temperature and pressure in order to decontaminate instruments and lab ware.
Autoclave
This is used in weighing different kinds of material needed for media preparation and alike.
Weighing balance
This is used as a heat source and is commonly used for preparing agar in microbiology.
Hot plate
