Materials to use in the Lab

By Crystal Schmit

Crucible Tongs

• These tongs are used to pick up and hold a very hot crucible to prevent from burning yourself.

Double burette clamp

• This clamp is to hold two burettes at the same time. The clamp is attached to a ring stand.

Pipe-stem Triangle

• A frame that can support a container. Can be placed on an iron ring to provide a stage for a crucible.

Crucible and cover

• A cup-shaped lab material used to contain chemicals when heating them to very high temperatures. It also keeps oxygen out of the reaction.

Bunsen burner

• Used to heat materials in a lab. It also has a rubber hose that connects to the gas jet.

Ring Stand

• A support for other materials in a lab.

Wash bottle

• Used to rinse glassware in the lab

Wire Gauze

• Can support a container when heating while the Bunsen burner is beneath it. Also it helps spread the flame/heat around the container.

Test tube brush

• Used to clean a test tube.

Iron Ring

• Attached to the ring stand. It can be used to support a beaker.

Buret

• Vertical cylindrical piece. It is used to dispense known amounts of a liquid in experiments. It gives you a precise amount for experiments.

Stirring rod

• Used to stir liquids and combinations of chemicals.

Funnel

• To remove un-dissolved solids from a liquid mixture. It also can be used to help pour a liquid into a container that has a small opening. It can be placed in an iron ring.

Evaporating dish

• Container used for liquids. Usually when you want to evaporate a liquid from a chemical.

Flint Striker

• Used to create a flame on a Bunsen burner.

Watch glass

• Used to evaporate off the liquid part of a solution. Can also be used as a beaker cover.

Goggles

• Used to protect your eyes from broken glass, flames, and chemicals.

Test tube rack

• Supports and holds many test tubes.

Beaker

• It is usually used as a container for mixing or holding chemicals.

Erlenmeyer flask

• Gives approximate measurements of volume. It is usually used as a mixing vessel or a container for heating. Can hold liquids.

Florence Flask

• Used to hold a liquid during heating. Can hold solutions of chemicals.

Graduated Cylinder

• Used to measure the volume of liquids.

Test tube

• A container to hold chemicals during heating.

Test tube holder

• Holds a test tube during heating or after being heated to prevent from being burned.

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