Science laboratory equipment can be classified into categories based on material and includes glasswares, porcelainwares, and other accessories. Glasswares are used for holding, heating, and storing liquids and include items like beakers, flasks, test tubes, and funnels. Porcelainwares contain heat-resistant materials like crucibles and evaporating dishes. Other equipment supports experiments through set-ups for heating, microscopy, distillation, and titration.

1. Science Laboratory Equipment

2. • Lab equipment is an important part of science
in general.
• Since science is divided into pure and applied
parts, experiments are very important.
• Equipment are used to carry out experiments
with ease.

3. Classification
• Equipment can be classified into different
categories usually based on the material they
are made of.
Glasswares Porcelainwares
Others

4. Glasswares
Beaker
• Used to hold and heat liquids. Multipurpose
and essential in the lab.
Test Tube
• Used by chemists to hold, mix, or heat small
quantities of solid or liquid chemicals,
especially for qualitative experiments.

5. Florence Flask
• Used for heating subtances 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
Erlenmeyer Flask
• Used to heat and store 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.

6. Funnel
• When lined with filter paper, used to filter
suspended solids from a liquid.
Graduated Cylinder
• Used to make accurate measurements of
liquid volumes.
Stirring Rod
• The stir rods are used to stir things. They are
usually made of glass.

7. Watch Glass
• Convex-concave piece of glass used in
chemistry as a surface to evaporate a
liquid, to hold solids while being
weighed, or as a cover for a beaker.
Petri Dish
• Used for holding a culture medium
upon which cells, bacteria, and viruses
can be grown and studied.

8. Porcelainwares
Crucible and Cover
• Used to heat chemicals (usually solids) to high
temperatures. This may be necessary to dry a
solid completely.
Evaporating Dish
• Used to evaporate the liquid away from a
small volume of solution.

9. Mortar and Pestle
• Used to grind solid chemicals into smaller
pieces. By grinding solid chemicals into
smaller pieces, the solid may dissolve or react
with other chemicals more quickly.
Spatula
• used for moving small amounts of solid from
place to place

10. Others
• The “other” equipment can be further
classified as ACCESSORY or for SPECIAL SET-
ups.
• Some special Set-ups include distillation,
titration, filtration etc.

11. Accessories
Brushes
• Coarse bristles to scrub and clean glassware
and other equipment. They come in many
different sizes, depending on the item being
cleaned.
Crucible Tongs
• Used for handling crucibles, evaporating
dishes, and other hot objects.

12. Test Tube Rack
• Used for holding test tubes upright when they
contain chemicals, and also hold test
tubes upside down to dry.
Test Tube holder
• Used to hold and transport hot test tubes.
Thermometer
• Used to measure the temperature of
substances.

13. Set-Ups
• Equipment involved in set-ups are usually
used for that special purpose alone.
• Basic set-ups are essential in performing
experiments.

14. Heating
Clay Triangle
• Used to support crucibles when heating
them.
Wire Gauze
• Used for supporting beakers and flasks when
they are being heated with a Bunsen Burner

15. Bunsen burner/ Alcohol lamp
• Used for heating chemicals and equipment.
Iron ring
• Used to support laboratory equipment above
the work surface.
Iron stand
• Used to provide support for other
equipment and a means of raising equipment
above the work surface.

16. Microscopy
Microscopes
• various powers are the most common of the
biology lab equipments used in bio labs to see
organisms and samples more closely.
Slides
In a biology lab, cells are gently smeared onto a
glass slide, treated with a fixative so that the
cellular component is seen clearly.

17. Distillation
• A method of separating mixtures based on
differences in volatilities of components in a
boiling liquid mixture.

18. Distilling Flask
• The distilling flask is used to separate liquid
mixtures by distillation.
Condenser
• Used to cool gases to a point where they will
liquefy, or condense, back into their liquid
form, so that they may be collected in a
separate container.

19. Titration
• A common laboratory method of quantitative
chemical analysis that is used to determine
the unknown concentration of an identified
liquid.

20. Burette
• Used in titrations to measure
precisely how much liquid is
used.