V COMMONLY ENCOUNTERED EQUIPMENT IN THE

CHEMISTRY LABORATORY
NAME  PICTURE  USE

beaker  Used to hold and heat liquids.

Multipurpose and essential in
the lab.

 
 
brushes  Used to easily clean the inside
of a test tubes and other
glassware.

 
Buchner  Used with vacuum flask for
funnel performing vacuum filtration.

 
Bunsen
burner  Used for heating and exposing
items to flame.
  

burette

 Used in titrations to measure

precisely how much liquid has
been delivered.

 
 

burette clamp

 Used to hold burettes on a ring

stand.
 

 clay triangle  Used to hold crucibles when

they are being heated. They
usually sit on a ring stand.

 
  crucible with
lid  Used to heat small quantities
to very high temperatures.
  

crucible tong
 Used to hold crucibles and
evaporating dishes when they
are hot.

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

 
 
electronic  Used for weighing substances
balance or objects, usually in grams.

 
 
 

erlenmeyer  Used to heat, mix, and store

flasks liquids. The advantage to the
Erlenmeyer Flask is that the
bottom  is  wider than the top so
it will heat quicker because of
the greater surface area
exposed to the  heat.
 
 
evaporating
dish  Used to recover dissolved
solids by evaporation.
  
 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. The
Florence Flask is mostly used
in distillation  experiments.
 forceps  
 Used for picking up and
moving small objects.
 
 
glass funnel  Used to pour liquids into any
container so they will not be lost
or spilled. They are also used
with  folded filter paper for
filtration.
 
 
glass stir rod  Used to stir liquids. They are
usually made of glass.

 
 

graduated
cylinder  Used to measure the volumes
of liquids.

 
 
hot plate  Used for heating substances
and liquids in beakers and
flasks.
  
 
Meker Burner
 Used for heating and exposing
items to flame.

micropipette  Used for accurately measuring

and delivering very small
volumes of liquid-usually 1 mL
or less.
 
 
mortar and
pestle  Used to crush solids into
powders for experiments,
usually to better dissolve the
solids.
 

pipette with
pump  Used for accurately
measuring and
delivering small
volumes of liquid-
usually 0.1-10 mL.
 Attached to ring stand and with
 ring clamp wire gauze used to hold
beakers or flasks while they are
heated  by a gas burner.
  
 

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.

 
 rubber  Stoppers come in many
stopper different sizes. The sizes are
from 0 to 8. Stoppers can have
holes for  thermometers and for
other probes that may be used.
scoopula  For scooping out small or large
amounts of chemicals from
bottles, etc.
 
 

separatory
funnel For separating layers of
immiscible liquids or for
dropping liquids.

 
 spatula  Used for moving small
amounts of solid from place to
place.

 
 striker
 Used to light a gas burner.
  
 

test tube  Used for storing, mixing, and

heating small amounts of
chemicals.

 
 test tube  Used to hold test tubes while
holder heating.

 
 
test tube rack  Used to hold test tubes while
reactions happen in them or
while they are not needed.
 
   
thermometer  Used to take temperature of
solids, liquids, and gases.

 
utility clamp  Used to attach test tubes and
other glassware to ring stand.

 
 

vacuum filter
flask  Used with vacuum line and
Buchner funnel for vacuum
filtration.
  
 

volumetric  Used to measure one specific

flask volume in mixing accurate
solutions.

 
 

wash bottle
 Used to wash or rinse other
containers

 
 
watch glass  Used to hold solids when being
weighed or transported. They
should never be heated. Can
also  be used to cover beakers
or other containers. 
 
 
weigh boat  Used for weighing solids on a
balance.

 
 wing top
 For obtaining broad, fishtail
flame that heats large area and
smoothly bends glass.
  
 

wire gauze  Used with a ring clamp to

support glassware over a
Bunsen burner. Spreads flame
out for more  even heating.