Laboratory equipment plays an important role in conducting experiments, research, and various findings. It is possible to solve various problems in the field of science in the laboratory by using laboratory equipment. There are many laboratory equipment used based on their applications. Lab equipment is sensitive and an important part of conducting the experiments efficiently.
Laboratory equipment
The discussions about the lab equipment and their uses are given below:
Laboratory Analytical Balance
It is a piece of laboratory equipment that is very much used to measure the material weight. It is used in scientific and pharmaceutical research, bakeries, and chemical laboratories. This measured scale is essential to determine the precise mass of the various materials. Lab electric balance is generally portable, chargeable, and battery-powered.
It contains attractive measurement features to get the proper readings and the smallest of measurements. It has a liquid crystal display, backdrop light, and functionality for calculating numbers and weighing moving objects correctly. It is possible to calculate a small volume very quickly with high precision, along with versatility.
Hot plate magnetic stirrer
It is an important type of laboratory equipment used to heat with stir various samples, solutions, and materials uniformly. It has a nice flat surface that connects with the heating source. It has a magnetic stirrer for maintaining a definite liquid temperature to control the homogeneity. The homogeneous solution can be prepared easily in the laboratory by applying this device. The usage and maintenance policy is very easy. The outer surface of this device is covered with stainless steel and other materials. There is a thermal conductivity plate with the attachment of the electric heating wire.
Water distiller
A water distiller is common laboratory equipment that is used to produce contaminant-free water. Water is generally transformed into vapor before condensing into a liquid state in this equipment by applying heat. It is possible to remove various germs, impurities, and harmful heavy metals from water by this equipment. The distiller in this equipment has the ability to transfer the evaporated water into pure cool, mineral-free drinkable water. The pure water from this equipment is used very much in chemistry laboratories, bioscience labs, forensic labs, and much more.
Fire Extinguisher
It is an essential piece of laboratory equipment that is portable and filled with various chemicals. The main purpose of this equipment is to control the small fires in laboratory areas. It is generally filled with a liquid, gas, or chemical agent and a propellant. The small fires can be controlled by discharging and directing the liquid, gas, or chemical agent at the places of fire. This equipment can be transported easily from the store by hand. There are various types of fire extinguishers water type, Film-forming foam type, Carbon Dioxide type, Halogenated agent types, Dry chemical types, and wet chemical types.
pH meter
It is an essential piece of laboratory equipment that can be used to measure the acidity or alkalinity of a solution. The degree of acidity or alkalinity is measured by this device. The measured scale of this device ranges between 0-14. It provides us the quantitative information that expresses the degree of the activity of an acid or base.
This electronic equipment consists of a special measuring probe. This probe consists of a glass electrode and transistor. An electronic meter of this equipment shows the decimal pH reading. This equipment should be calibrated prior to use against buffer solutions.
Centrifugal machine
This machine is a crucial piece of laboratory equipment used to create centrifugal force. The particles in the solution can be separated easily from a selected solvent by using this equipment. This equipment follows the principle of sedimentation. The acceleration from this device helps to move the particles outward in the radial direction. As a result, the denser particles settle to the bottom of the centrifugal test tube. The centrifugal force is applied in this equipment to separate as well as rotate the substance properly. There are various types of this equipment based on their rotation speed. There are low-speed centrifuges, high-speed centrifuges, and ultracentrifuges.
Laboratory oven
This piece of laboratory equipment is used to remove the moisture from samples. This equipment is essential in the field of chemical, environmental, clinical, biological labs, and much more. It provides the uniform temperature throughout the chamber necessary for running various lab functions like annealing, drying, sterilizing, and others. The size of this equipment ranges from one cubic foot (28 liters) to 32 cubic feet (906 liters). The temperature can reach this equipment up to 300°C (572°F).
It consists of a forced-convection ventilation system, an intuitive interface, and a microprocessor PID controller. There are also programming options, a 4-zone heated air jacket, and ergonomic features to get the best quality service from this equipment.
Laboratory water bath
This piece of laboratory equipment is used to incubate samples in water at a constant temperature. It consists of a container that can be filled with water and heated properly at a constant temperature over a long period of time..
It has a digital or analog interface where a desired temperature can be set. The liquid sample can be heated easily by using this equipment. It has a heating unit, a stainless-steel chamber that holds the water and samples, and a control interface. At present, a smart PID constant temperature heating device and double-screen LED temperature controller are used to control the flow and temperature.
Laboratory Refrigerator
This piece of laboratory equipment is designed for purely domestic, catering, or other uses like lab purposes. The internal storage temperature of this equipment typically ranges from 1°C to 15°C. This temperature helps to store and protect temperature-sensitive products, specimens, chemicals, various samples, drugs, solutions, and other substances. It has various sizes, dimensions, and capacitates. It consists of one or more shelves, compartments, and/or drawers.
Melting Point Apparatus
It is a laboratory equipment used to detect the melting point of an element. It can be possible to determine the melting point of materials with great precision and accuracy. We know that solid materials convert into liquid at the melting point temperature. The melting point of each material is important physical properties that can be measured by using this equipment. Pure elements have sharp melting points but the impure and contaminated elements have a low melting point. The initial, as well as the final melting point of an element, can be determined by this melting point apparatus easily. The higher intermolecular forces inside the substances show a higher melting point. At the present time, modern melting point apparatus records and displays the melting point curve. It also shows the average value of various substances and their melting point.
Polarimeter
It is an essential piece of equipment used to measure the optical rotation of liquids. The plane-polarized light rotation can be detected by this equipment to characterize the examined sample. A lot of chemical compounds show optical active properties which can be identified by polarimeter. The process from this equipment is sensitive and nondestructive which are applied for measuring the optical activity of various inorganic and organic compounds. It consists of a polarizing filter to identify the optical rotation of various substances.
Laboratory Vacuum Pump
This lab equipment is used for various purposes in the laboratory by scientists and researchers. It is designed to lower the boiling point of a solution by decreasing the system’s pressure. The evaporation process of solution is completed at a very low boiling temperature. This phenomenon helps to decrease the chance of sample deterioration.
Laboratory Furnace
It is important lab equipment used to perform various tasks. This piece of equipment is used very much in the manufacturing and science industries. This versatile tool is used for annealing to improve the ductility and malleability of metal samples. This equipment is also used for the removal of solvent from the sample, sterilizing, evaporation, polymer curing, and polyimide baking purposes.
Bunsen burner
This burner was invented by a German scientist Robert Bunsen in 1857 with his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga. This necessary lab equipment produces a safe, smokeless, hot, non-luminous flame to conduct various experiments in the fields of chemistry, biology, and various research purposes. The flame of this equipment can be created by the gas and oxygen in a controlled environment. It has a flat base portion and consists of a vertically extending straight tube. Natural gas or LPG gas is used to supply the fuel material at the bottom of the chimney which has a connection with a gas valve using a rubber tube.
UV-Vis spectroscopy
It is an analytical piece of laboratory equipment used to measure the discrete wavelengths of UV or visible light. The amount of visible or UV light absorption through a sample in comparison to a reference or blank sample can be done by helping this equipment. The sample composition and various properties can be known by this technique. The absorbance of spectral information from the taken sample can be possible by this technique. This equipment is used in chemistry labs, biological labs, beverages, refinery industries, and chemical research purposes. It is possible to detect the interaction of light with matter at electronic levels by UV Spectroscopy. It helps to identify the ultraviolet region (180nm) to the visible region (780nm) wavelength of light.
