1. Lab Equipment Notes
IPC Unit 1

2. Beaker
Used to hold and heat liquids. Multipurpose and essential in the lab.

3. Test Tube Brushes
Used to easily clean the inside of a test tubes and other glassware.

4. Bunsen Burner
Used for heating and exposing items to flame

5. Crucible with Lid
Used to heat small quantities to very high temperatures.

6. Crucible Tong
Used to hold crucibles and evaporating dishes when they are hot.

7. Disposable Pipette
Used for moving small amounts of liquid from place to place. They are usually made of plastic and are disposable

8. Electronic Balance
Used for weighing substances or objects, usually in grams.

9. Erlenmeyer Flask Used to heat, mix, and store liquids.
The advantage to the Erlenmeyer Flask is that the bottom is wider than the top
It will heat quicker because of the greater surface area exposed to the heat.

10. Evaporating Dish
Used to recover dissolved solids by evaporation

11. Florence Flask
Used for heating substances that need to be heated evenly.
The bulbed bottom allows the heat to distribute through the liquid more evenly.
Mostly used in distillation experiments.

12. Forceps
Used for picking up and moving small objects.

13. Graduated Cylinder
Used to measure the volumes of liquids

14. Hot Plate
Used for heating substances and liquids in beakers and flasks.

15. Mortar & Pestle
Used to crush solids into powders for experiments, usually to better dissolve the solids.

16. Ring Clamp
Attached to ring stand and with wire gauze used to hold beakers or flasks while they are heated by a gas burner.

17. Ring Stand Used to hold items being heated.
Clamps or rings can be used so that items may be placed above the lab table for heating by Bunsen burners or other items.

18. Scoopula
For scooping out small or large amounts of chemicals from bottles, etc.

19. Spatula
Used for moving small amounts of solid from place to place.

20. Striker
Used to light a gas burner

21. Test Tube
Used for storing, mixing, and heating small amounts of chemicals.

22. Test Tube Holder
Used to hold test tubes while heating.

23. Test Tube Rack
Used to hold test tubes while reactions happen in them or while they are not needed.

24. Thermometer Used to take temperature of solids, liquids, and gases.
They are usually in oC, but can also be in oF.

25. Triple Beam Balance
used to measure masses very precisely

26. Utility Clamp
Used to attach test tubes and other glassware to ring stand

27. Wash Bottle
Used to wash or rinse other containers

28. Weigh Boat
Used for weighing solids on a balance.

29. Wire Gauze
Used to support other glassware over, for ex. a Bunsen burner