Lab Apparatus Flashcards
Also known as a sample tube, a common piece of laboratory glassware consisting of a finger like length of glass or clear plastic tubing
Test tube
Used to hold upright multiple test tubes at the same time.
Test tube rack
Used for cleaning test tubes and narrow mouth laboratory glassware
Test tube brush
Used to hold test tubes. Used to hold test tubes in place
Test tube holder
Used as containers. These are only rough estimates of the liquid volume.
Beakers
Often used as reaction vessels, particularly in titrations
Erlenmeyer flask
Used to measure and store solutions with a high degree of accuracy.
Volumetric flask
Used to transfer liquids with a moderate degree of accuracy
Graduated cylinder
Transferring liquids with a fixed volume
Pipette
These pipettes are made of plastics and disposable
Disposable pipettes
A tube that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, used for guiding liquid into a small opening
Funnel
A small dish shaped liked a cylinder
Petri dish
Used to mixed chemicals and liquids for laboratory purposes. Made of solid glass like a straw
Stirring rod
A semi-permeable paper barrier. Used to separate fine substances from liquids or air
Filter paper
A circular concave piece of glass used as a surface to evaporate a liquid, to hold solids while being weighed, for heating a small amount of substance
Watch glass
used since ancient times to prepare ingredients by crushing and grinding them
mortar and pestle
contains a chemical that changes color as it touches with acid or base
LITMUS and pH PAPER
in acid the blue litmus will turn?
red
in base the red litmus will turn into?
blue
in pH scale if the numbers are 0-7 what is it called?
acidic