Lab Equipment Practice
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Name: _________________________
A number of items you will be using in the laboratory are shown below. Study this page and decide what the items
may be used for, then, match the correct equipment pictured on this page to the tasks asked for on the bottom of
the page.
Beaker
Safety Glasses
Rubber Stoppers
Tongs
Erlenmeyer flask
Electronic Balance
Transfer Pipette
Funnel
Fire Extinguisher
Graduated cylinder
Thermometer
Bunsen Burner
Test Tube Clamp/Holder
Dribble Cup
Test Tube
Triple Beam Balance
Object Name
1.
Purpose
Used to pick up or hold test tubes when they are hot
2.
Used to hold really small amounts of liquid (under 2 mL)
3.
A device that provides a constant heat source
4.
Protects the eyes from flying objects or chemical splashes
5.
A wide-mouthed container used to transport, heat or store substances
6.
A small glass cylinder used to view chemical reactions or to heat small amounts of a substance
7.
A device to measure the mass of an object or substance.
8.
Used with an Erlenmeyer flask to contain a substance
9.
Used to measure volume precisely
10.
Used to pour liquids into containers with small openings or to hold filter paper
11.
Safety device used to put out fires
12.
A plastic covered device used to lift hot beakers
13.
A device that would be used to measure the temperature of a solution
14.
A narrow-mouthed glass container used to transport heat or store substances, when a
stopper is required.
15.
Used to measure mass by moving weights along a beam
16.
Used measure the volume of larger objects with irregular shapes.
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Lab Equipment Worksheet
Explain which piece of laboratory equipment would be most useful for each of the following
tasks:
1)
Containing 50 mL of boiling water: _______________________________
2)
Strongly heating a test tube over a bunsen burner: _______________________
3)
Pouring 50 mL of acid from a large mouth container to a small mouth container:
________________________________
4)
Measuring exactly 43.0 mL of water: _____________________________
5)
Massing 120 grams of sodium chloride: ___________________________
6)
Accurately delivers 25.00 mL of base into a flask to react with 10.00 mL of an acid:
________________________________
7)
Suspending a beaker over a Bunsen burner: _______________________
8)
Assist in removing solid chemicals from a reagent bottle: ________________
9)
Keeping the contents of a boiling beaker from splattering: __________________
10)
Mixing two liquids together in the same container: ________________________
11)
Pulverizing a solid chunk of a chemical into a powder: _____________________
12)
Adding a liquid dropwise into a test tube: __________________________
13)
Evaporating water from an aqueous solution containing a precipitiate:
_____________________________
14.
Spreads the flame evenly over the bottom of a beaker when using a bunsen
burner: ________________________________________
15)
Holds a thermometer in a beaker containing a liquid while the beaker is heated:
____________________________