Lab Safety Safety Equipment What would You do? Lab Glassware Misc. Equipment 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 The one type of Personal Protective Equipment you will need for any lab. What are goggles or glasses? The penalty for horseplay during a lab. What is ISS and removal from future lab exercises? This is where you dispose of broken glass. What is the glass disposal bucket, NOT the trashcan! The procedure for testing to see if a hotplate is hot. What is holding the BACK of your hand over the hotplate? It means waving your hand over the top of a beaker or flask to gently stir the air so you can see if a substance has a smell. What is wafting? The location of the fire extinguisher What is by the door? The location of the safety shower and eyewash. What is in the chemical storage room? The location of the fire blanket. What is by the door? The location of the clean, sanitized safety glasses. What is in the glasses cabinet near the fume hood? The thing we use to keep fumes or smelly chemicals from accumulating in the room or blowing up into your face. What is the fume hood? That is how long you should flush your eyes or skin with water to remove a chemical. What is 15 minutes? A student gets a small crystal of potassium chloride in their eye. What is take them to the eyewash, turn it on, and help them wash their eyes out for 15 minutes. A student drops and breaks a beaker, cutting themselves slightly. What is notify the teacher immediately. You may help pick up broken glass with tongs, and dispose of it in the broken glass bucket. A student gets a burn from the hotplate. What is notify the teacher immediately, then rinse the burn in cool water for at least 15 minutes. A student gets a bad cut that is bleeding heavily. What is notify the teacher immediately, and apply pressure to the wound to help stop bleeding. It is the most commonly used lab glassware, used to heat substances, hold liquids, and stir solutions. It can’t be used for measureing, because it isn’t very accurate. What is a beaker? It is commonly used to hold liquids while heating, it’s sloped sides help cut down on evaporation, and allow the solution to be swirled without spilling. What is an Erlenmeyer flask? It is a small tube, open on one end that is used to hold small amounts of substances for observation or heating. What is a test tube? It is used to very accurately measure liquids. What is a graduated cylinder? It has a round shape to fit in a heating mantle, but is flat on the very bottom to sit on a hotplate. It is often used in distillation experiments. What is a Florence Flask? It is used to hold several test tubes at once. What is a test tube rack? It is used to grind solid materials into powder. What is a mortar and pestle? It is used to hold materials being weighed to keep the balance pan clean. What is a weigh boat? It is used to heat substances to very high temperatures, usually over a Bunsen burner or in an oven. What is a crucible? It is used to transfer small amounts of liquids. What is a dropper pipette?