Lab Equipment

Question 1

A common piece of laboratory equipment is used to measure the volume of a liquid

Answer 1

Graduated cylinder

Question 2

Used for lifting, carrying, or heating test tubes

Answer 2

Test tube tongs

Question 3

Allow users to handle hot items or dry ice safely

Answer 3

Hot Pads

Question 4

Used to contain liquids and for mixing, heating, cooling, incubation, filtration, storage, and other liquid-handling processes

Answer 4

Erlenmeyer flask

Question 5

A piece of laboratory equipment that is used to mix chemicals

Answer 5

Glass Stir Rod

Question 6

A brand name of a spatula-like scoop utensil used primarily in chemistry lab settings to transfer solids

Answer 6

Scoopula

Question 7

Used by chemists to handle chemicals, especially for qualitative experiments and assays

Answer 7

Test Tube

Question 8

Used for plugging joints or holes in laboratory glassware and creating a liquid-tight seal

Answer 8

Rubber Stoppers

Question 9

Used to violently strike the fire steel at an acute angle in order to cleave or shave off small particles of metal

Answer 9

Flint striker

Question 10

Used for determining the weight or mass of a sample

Answer 10

Table Top Balance

Question 11

To transport a measured volume of liquid

Answer 11

Pipet

Question 12

To transport a more precisely measured volume of liquid

Answer 12

Micropipet

Question 13

Used to hold multiple test tubes upright at the same time

Answer 13

Test Tube Rack

Question 14

Used to provide a single, continuous flame by mixing gas with air in a controlled fashion

Answer 14

Bunsen Burner

Question 15

For cleaning funnel stems and capillary tubes

Answer 15

Test Tube Brush/Bottle Brush

Question 16

Laboratory tools were used to uniformly heat samples

Answer 16

Hot Plate

Question 17

A device widely used in laboratories and consists of a rotating magnet or a stationary electromagnet that creates a rotating magnetic field

Answer 17

Magnetic Stir

Question 18

A reaction container or to hold liquid or solid samples

Answer 18

Beaker

Question 19

Used mainly by microbiologists to pick up and transfer a small sample (inoculum) from a culture of microorganisms, eg for streaking on a culture plate

Answer 19

Inoculating Loop

Question 20

To store the samples (suspensions and immiscible liquids) that are to be isolated and separated

Answer 20

Microcentrifuge Tube

Question 21

Used to decontaminate certain biological waste and sterilize media, instruments, and labware at a high temperature

Answer 21

Autoclave

Question 22

To culture cells

Answer 22

Petri Dish

Question 23

Used for applications such as sample collection, compound preparation, combinatorial chemistry, high throughput screening, nucleic acid purification, bacterial culture growth, and plate replication

Answer 23

96 Well Plate

Question 24

Used in various laboratories to separate fluids, gases, or liquids based on density

Answer 24

Centrifuge

Question 25

To mix small vials of liquid

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Vortex

Question 26

A laboratory apparatus used to amplify segments of DNA via the Polymerase Chain Reaction

Answer 26

Thermal Cycler

Question 27

Used to analyze DNA fragments

Answer 27

Gel Electrophoresis Chamber

Question 28

Take the magic of accurately transferring small amounts of liquids and multiply it much fold into a single device with multiple heads, usually 8 or 12

Answer 28

Multichannel Pipet

Question 29

Used in modern research laboratories to maintain a stable environment for processes such as growing cells and microbiological cultures and incubating antibodies and cells for fluorescence microscopy

Answer 29

Incubator

Question 30

Used to incubate samples at a constant temperature over a long period of time

Answer 30

Water Bath

Question 31

Used for sealing and protecting vessels such as test tubes, cuvettes, and Petri dishes

Answer 31

Parafilm

Question 32

Keep potential sharp or harmful items from hurting anything or anyone

Answer 32

Sharps Disposal