Week 3 Lab: Basic Lab Supplies Flashcards
Steps in using the spectrophotometer?
- Switch on
- Warm up
- Set Mode
- Set Wavelength
- Blank
- Read Standard/Unknown
Uses of centrifuge?
- Remove cellular elements from blood (serum/plasma)
- Concentrate cellular elements for microscopic examination
- Remove precipitated protein
- Separate CHON bound/Ab-bound ligand
- Extract solutes from aqueous to organic solvents
- Separate lipid components
Types of centrifuge?
- Fixed-angle head/Angle-head
- Swinging-bucket type/Horizontal head
- Ultracentrifuge
Speed of the centrifuge should be checked at least once every?
3 months
Used for quality control of centrifuge?
- Tachometer
- Strobe light
Centrifuge timer should be checked ________ against a reference timer.
weekly
Centrifuge temperature should be checked when?
monthly
Centrifuge rpm and minutes?
1000-1200 x g , 10 + 5 mins
Fixed angle centrifuge is used for?
Rapid sedimentation
Ultracentrifuge rpm?
90,000 – 100,000 rpm (178,000 x g)
Parts of a centrifuge?
Power switch, timer, speed control, brake, tachometer, alarm, safety latch
Temperature of Refrigerated Centrifuge?
-15 to 25 degrees C
Centrifuge: tubes with tapered bottoms?
formation of more compact pellets
True or false: In centrifuge, tubes must fit snuggly in the carriers.
True
What will happen if the top of the tubes protrudes too far?
impede rotor
In using the centrifuge, you must observe?
proper balancing
Pipet classification according to design?
- To contain
- To deliver
Pipet classification according to drainage characteristics?
- Blowout
- Self-draining
Pipet classification according to type (measuring/graduated)?
- Serologic
- Mohr
- Bacteriologic
- Ball, Kolmer, or Kahn
- Micropipet
Pipet classification according to type (transfer)?
- Volumetric
- Ostwald-Folin
- Pasteur pipets
- Automatic macropipets or micropipets
holds a particular volume but does not dispense that exact volume
TC (To contain) Pipette
calibrated by introducing the exact weight of mercury required to give the desired volume at a specific temperature
TC (To contain) Pipette
mercury does not wet glass and pipettes calibrated this way will contain but not deliver the stated volume
TC (To contain) Pipette
dispense the indicated volume
TD (To deliver) Pipette
calibrated by weighing the volume of water that will flow from them by gravity
TD (To deliver) Pipette
rate of delivery must never be hastened by blowing
TD (To deliver) Pipette
same as TD pipette but drops remaining at the tip after delivery is blown out to receiving vessel
“To Blow-Out” Pipette
an etched ring is seen near the mouthpiece
“To Blow-Out” Pipette
the user allows the contents of the pipette to drain by gravity
Self Draining pipette
has the greatest degree of accuracy and precision
Volumetric or transfer Pipette
designed to dispense one volume c/o further subdivisions
Volumetric or transfer Pipette
calibrated to deliver a fixed volume of liquid
Volumetric or transfer Pipette
has a bulb between mouthpiece and tip that decreases surface area/unit volume and diminished error from water film
Volumetric or transfer Pipette
Is volumetric or transfer pipette self-draining or blowout?
self-draining
used in measuring viscous fluids such as whole blood
Ostwald-Folin Pipette