1. LABORATORY and SAFETY EQUIPMENT AND THEIR FUNCTIONS

2. Goggles Protects eyes from broken glass, chemicals, and flames
Most important piece of lab equipment .
Protects eyes from broken glass, chemicals, and flames

3. Lab Aprons
Protects clothes from chemicals

4. Eye Wash Used if hazardous chemicals get into eye
Rinse eyes for min. if exposed to chemicals

5. Fire Blanket
Wrap around a person whose clothes or hair have caught on fire
Then they should drop and roll

6. Shower over a large part of the body Used if a chemical is spilled
Ex. All over clothes or legs
over a large part of the body

7. Beaker precise May be heated Used to hold or mix chemicals
Can be used to measure if it doesn’t need to be
precise

8. Stirring Rod
Glass rod used for stirring
BE CAREFUL! They break easily

9. Erlenmeyer Flask
May be heated
Used for mixing chemicals

10. Graduated Cylinder Measures volumes of liquids
Measure to bottom of meniscus

11. Test Tube May be heated Holding For small reactions
small amounts of chemicals

12. Wire Gauze produced by a Bunsen burner Can place a beaker on top
Spreads out the heat

13. Test Tube Holder
DUHHHHH
It holds a test tube

14. Test Tube Rack vertical Holds test tubes in a position.
Allows for clear sight.
Drying rack
vertical

15. Ring Stand
Multi-purpose, mostly used as a to heat chemicals and hold burettes.
support

16. Funnel Holds filter paper for filtering solutions.
Transferring liquids to smaller narrow necked containers.

17. Ring Clamp Place wire gauze One side clamps to ring stand.
on ring and it will hold beakers and flasks for heating.
Can hold small beakers or funnels.
Place wire gauze

18. Watch Glass beaker cover Used as a
Can be used to place small amounts of chemicals on
(looks like a contact lens)

19. Evaporating Dish
Holds small volumes of liquids being evaporated.

20. Plastic Wash Bottle
Dispenses water for rinsing equipment

21. Crucible and Lid high temperatures
Holds small amounts of chemicals for heating at
high temperatures

22. Clay Triangle
crucible
Supports a in a ring stand apparatus.

23. Crucible Tongs
Pick up and hold small hot items like a crucible.

24. Forceps
Used to pick up
items.
small

25. Bunsen Burner Controls release of natural gas for burning.
Tubing connects to gas source.

26. Striker
Used to ignite the burner

27. Electronic Balance
Measures mass in grams

28. Triple Beam Balance
Measures mass in grams

29. Weigh Boat
Used for weighing samples

30. Rubber Stopper
Covers test tube for mixing

31. Scoopula
transfer solids
Used to from one container to another

32. Test Tube Brush
Cleans out a test tube

33. Thermometer
Takes temperature (in )
Celsius

34. Pipette
Used for transferring very small volumes of liquids

35. Burette (buret) Used to dispense exact amounts of liquid
Has a stopcock on the end to control liquid being dispensed

36. Burette clamp One side clamps to ring stand
One side attaches to burette