Agar plate • Aspirator • Autoclave • Bunsen burner • Calorimeter • Colony counter • Colorimeter • Centrifuge • Fume hood • Incubator • Laminar flow cabinet • Magnetic stirrer • Microscope • Microtiter plate • Plate reader • Spectrophotometer • Stir bar • Thermometer • Vortex mixer • Static mixer An agar plate streaked with microorganisms isolated from a deep-water sponge. ... A copper aspirator. ... Front loading autoclaves are common Stovetop autoclaves need to be monitored carefully, but have a very large capacity Multiple large autoclaves are used for processing substantial quantities of laboratory equipment prior to reuse, and infectious material prior to disposal. ... A bunsen burner with needle valve. ... A calorimeter is a device used for calorimetry, the science of measuring the heat of chemical reactions or physical changes as well as heat capacity. ... An electronic bacterial colony counter. ... A colorimeter is a device used to measure the absorbance of a specific solution. ... A laboratory tabletop centrifuge A centrifuge is a piece of equipment, generally driven by a motor, that puts an object in rotation around a fixed axis, applying force perpendicular to the axis. ... A common modern fume hood. ... In microbiology, an incubator is a device for controlling the temperature, humidity, and other conditions in which a microbiological culture is being grown. ... UV light desinfects the sterile laminar flow cabinet when not in use Laminar flow cabinet or laminar flow closet is a carefully enclosed bench designed to prevent contamination of semiconductor wafers, biological samples, or any particle sensitive device. ... A magnetic stirrer consists of a small bar magnet (or stir bar), which is normally wrapped in plastics like PTFE and a stand or plate containing a rotating magnet or stationary electomagnets creating a rotating magnetic field. ... Robert Hookes microscope (1665) - an engineered device used to study living systems. ... A 96-well microtiter plate. ... Plate readers (also know as microplate readers) are laboratory instruments designed to detect biological, chemical or physical events in samples stored in microtiter plates. ... A Spectrophotometer In physics, spectrophotometry is the quantitative study of electromagnetic spectra. ... A stir bar (or flea) is a magnetic bar, used to stir a chemical reaction mixture or solution in a laboratory. ... A common mercury thermometer A thermometer is a device which measures temperature or temperature gradient, using a variety of different principles. ... A Mini-Vortexer with micro-centrifuge tube. ... Three static mixers: The top is an alternating spiral with each spiral offset by 90°; the second is the above in a delivery tube, such as for epoxy; the last is a larger metal mixer used to divide a flow into streams that intersect at 90°. - Static Mixers use the...

Laboratory glassware
Beaker • Boiling tube • Büchner funnel • Burette • Condenser • Conical measure • Crucible • Cuvette • Laboratory flasks (Erlenmeyer flask, Round-bottom flask, Florence flask, Volumetric flask, Büchner flask, Retort) • Gas syringe • Graduated cylinder • Pipette • Petri dish • Separating funnel • Soxhlet extractor • Test tube • Thistle tube • Watch glass Brown glass jars with some clear lab glassware in the background Laboratory glassware refers to a variety of equipment, traditionally made of glass, used for scientific experiments and other work in science, especially in chemistry and biology laboratories. ... hiA beaker is a simple container for liquids, very commonly used in laboratories. ... A large, thick-walled laboratory tube used for strongly heating substances with a Bunsen burner or other heat source. ... A Büchner funnel connected to a flask with a tube leading to a vacuum pump Büchner funnel is a piece of laboratory equipment used in suction filtration. ... A burette (also buret) is a vertical cylindrical piece of laboratory glassware with a volumetric graduation on its full length and a precision tap, or stopcock, on the bottom. ... The term condenser has the following meanings: In electronics, it is another (old-fashioned) word for capacitor. ... A conical measure is a type of laboratory glassware which consists of a conical cup with a notch on the top to allow for the easy pouring of liquids. ... Crucibles used in Czochralski method A crucible is a cup-shaped piece of laboratory equipment used to contain chemical compounds when heating them to very high temperatures. ... A cuvette is a kind of laboratory glassware, usually a small square tube, sealed at one end, made of plastic, glass, or optical grade quartz and designed to hold samples for spectroscopic experiments. ... Erlenmeyer flasks from the Argonne National Laboratory glassblowing shop. ... Conical flask An Erlenmeyer flask (also known as a conical flask) is a widely used type of laboratory glassware which features a conical base with a cylindrical neck. ... Round-bottom flasks are types of flasks having spherical bottoms used as laboratory glassware, mostly for chemical or biochemical work. ... Florence flask A Florence flask (also known as a round bottom flask or a boiling flask) is a piece of laboratory glassware. ... A volumetric flask. ... A Büchner funnel connected to a flask with a tube leading to a vacuum pump A Büchner flask, also known as a vacuum flask, is a thick-walled erlenmeyer flask with a glass tube and hose barb protruding about an inch from its neck, connected to an aspirator. ... A retort. ... Graduated cylinder. ... A selection of pipettes A pipette (also called a pipet or a pipettor) is a laboratory instrument used to transport a measured volume of liquid. ... Man looking at fungus inside of petri dishes A Petri dish is a shallow glass or plastic cylindrical dish that biologists use to culture microbes. ... Separating funnel A separating funnel or separation funnel or separatory funnel is a piece of equipment used in science to separate two immiscible liquids or solutions of different densities. ... A schematic representation of a Soxhlet extractor A Soxhlet extractor is a type of laboratory glassware invented in 1879 by Franz von Soxhlet. ... A test tube (Sometimes culture tube) is a kind of laboratory glassware, composed of a fingerlike length of glass tubing, open at the top, sometimes with a rounded lip at the top, and a rounded U shaped bottom. ... A thistle tube is a piece of laboratory glassware consisting mostly of a shaft of tube, with a reservoir and funnel-like section at the top. ... Caesium fluoride sample on a watch glass A watch glass is a circular, slightly concave piece of glass used in chemistry as a surface to evaporate a liquid, or as a cover for a beaker. ...