CHEM113: BIOCHEMISTRY PRELIMS

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Prof. Merly Alfafara / Second Semester
Transcriber: Kathleen Venus 23

LABORATORY APPARATUS
weighed, for
IMAGE NAME FUNCTION heating a
is a small
laboratory amount of
equipment substance
that is used and as a
to incubate cover for a
samples at a beaker.
constant Used for
temperature separating
over a long solid
period of substances
Water Bath time. Water from
bath is a solution. May
preferred be made of
heat source ceramic or
for heating Funnel plastic. Used
flammable for filtering;
chemicals the bottom of
instead of an the frit is a
open flame porous glass
to prevent surface,
ignition. which allows
crush up material to
solid be trapped
chemicals are used to
into smaller transport and
pieces, or to distribute dry
grind solids chemical
into fine compounds.
Mortar and powder. This Spatulas are
Pestle makes it used most
easier to often when
dissolve weighing out
Spatula
solids into chemicals on
solvents a balance
(when because
making they allow
solutions). you to collect
is a piece of very small
laboratory quantities of
apparatus the chemical
used to at a time.
measure the supports the
volume of a iron ring
liquids, when
chemicals or heating
Graduated substances
solutions.
Cylinder or mixtures
Graduated
cylinders are in a flask or
more beaker
accurate and Iron Stand (using a
precise than Bunsen
laboratory burner)
flasks and clamps can
beakers. also be used
is a circular to hold
concave glasswares
piece of on the iron
glass used in ring.
Watch chemistry as
Glass a surface to
evaporate a
liquid, to hold
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solids while
being
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Ring clamps titrations and
(or iron for boiling
rings) are liquids.
also separates
commonly foreign
used in the material from
organic lab. granular
They are product by
used to hold means of
Iron Ring
separatory spreading
funnels, and flow over an
can be used intake cone.
to secure aspirator The thin
funnels when stream of
filtering or material is
pouring introduced to
liquids into a controlled
narrow joints current of air
is a scientific that passes
equipment through the
which used material as it
specifically falls.
to hold and is a
secure a laboratory
burette on a instrument
stand, so used to
that a burette measure out
is fixed and or transfer
Burette more small
Pipette
clamp convenient quantities of
for the liquid, in
experiment. volumes of
Burette milliliters
clamps can (mL),
be made microliters
with many (μL).
materials is used to
such as measure the
plastic and boiling point
cast iron. and freezing
A clamp point during
holder in a science
lab is used to Thermometer experiments.
secure an It is also
extension- used to
Iron Clamp
type utility measure the
clamp to a temperature
support of
stand or ring substances.
stand. are
are used to glassware
contain containers
liquids and used for
for mixing, laboratory
heating, testing. They
cooling, are used for
incubation, the
filtration, evaporation
storage, and of liquids and
other liquid- Evaporating solutions to
handling Dish produce a
Erlenmeyer
processes. solid
Flask
Their slanted substance or
sides and concentrated
narrow solutions.
necks allow Dishes have
the contents a shallow flat
to be mixed round
by swirling surface to
without the promote
risk of spills, evaporation.
which is
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useful for
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is a brush is a
used for cylindrical
cleaning test glass or
tubes and plastic
narrow vessel used
mouth for holding
Test Tube laboratory liquids. It is a
Brush glassware, multi-
such as purpose
graduated piece of
cylinders, equipment
burettes, and Beaker used for
Erlenmeyer containing a
flasks. chemical
is a piece of reaction,
laboratory measuring
equipment liquids,
used to hold heating them
multiple test over a
tubes upright Bunsen
at the same burner's
time. They flame or
are collecting
Test Tube especially them in a
Rack useful for titration
organizing experiment.
test tubes A crucible is
when a type of
different laboratory
solutions are glassware
being Crucible designed to
worked on or and cover melt or burn
collected at solid
once chemicals
is a kind of over a
ambient air burner.
gas burner These are
used as tight-fitting
laboratory eye
equipment; it protection
Bunsen produces a that
Burner single open completely
gas flame, covers the
and is used Goggles eyes and
for heating, provides
sterilization, protection
and from
combustion. chemical
used to bend splashes,
glass as it impact, and
spread out dust.
the heat over an important
a larger piece of
area, making supporting
it more equipment in
uniform. A a laboratory
porcelain as glassware
spatula is cannot be
used in heated
Fish Tail laboratory directly with
applications Wire Gauze the flame of
where a Bunsen
scratching burner, and
delicate requires the
surfaces is use of a wire
undesired as gauze to
well as diffuse the
scooping up heat, helping
small to protect the
quantities of glassware.
powder.
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is a metal a device
tool for used to
cutting a transfer
hole in a small
cork or quantities of
rubber liquids. They
stopper to are used in
Medicine
insert glass the
Dropper
tubing. Cork laboratory
borers and also to
Cork Borer
usually come dispense
in a set of small
nested sizes amounts of
along with a liquid
solid pin for medicines.
pushing the used for
removed weighing
cork (or objects. The
rubber) out balance has
of the borer. two
is a piece of platforms
laboratory either
apparatus mounted on
that is used or
Platform
to support a suspended
Balance
crucible from a cross-
being heated arm, and
by a Bunsen weights are
burner or placed on
other heat one platform
Clay
source. It is until they
Triangle
made of balance the
wires strung object being
in an weighed.
equilateral used by
triangle on chemists to
which are hold, mix, or
strung hollow heat small
ceramic, quantities of
normally fire Test Tube solid or liquid
clay, tubes. chemicals,
especially for
are used to qualitative
store experiments
chemicals in and assays.
liquid or
Reagent powder form.
Bottle They are
generally
made up of
glass or
plastic.

for adding
chemical
solutions to a
reaction
vessel.
Thistle tubes
Thistle
minimize the
Tube
risk of a
reaction
occurring too
quickly and
bubbling
over.
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