Griffin beakers are used to mix chemicals, dissolve

Lab burners come in many different styles and

into solutions, heat or cool solutions, and hold sand or

usually run on alcohol, propane, or butane. They

water baths. They typically have graduations, but they

are used to heat or boil solutions, burn or melt

are not very accurate. See more beakers.

solid chemicals, or form glass tubing. Shop all lab

burners.

Erlenmeyer flasks, like beakers, can be used to mix,

Lab stands also come in many different styles:

dissolve into solutions, and heat or cool solutions. In

wire stands, tripods, or heavy support stands. Wire

addition, they can be plugged with stoppers and used to

stands and tripods can hold beakers or flasks over

catch vapor or condensed liquid. Graduations are not

a burner. Support stands (pictured) are much more

very accurate. Viewmore flasks.

versatile and can have various clamps or rings

mounted to them to hold several pieces of
equipment at once.Browse stands.

Florence/boiling flasks are round to provide uniform

Funnels are used to pour liquids into narrow-

heating or boiling of liquids. They can be used to mix or

mouth containers such as flasks and

store solutions as well as collect vapor in distillation

bottles. Buchner funnels (pictured) are special

processes. They can have either round or flat

two-piece funnels for filtering mixtures through

bottoms. Shop all flasks.

filter paper into a filtering flask. See all funnels.

Volumetric flasks are used to accurately prepare

Evaporating dishes are used to separate water

solutions. A weighed amount of solid chemical is placed

and solids from a solution by allowing the water to

at the bottom, and the liquid solvent is added until the

evaporate off into the air. This is usually done by

fill line is reached. See more now.

heating the evaporating dish over a burner.

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Filtering flasks are used to filter mixtures through a

Crucibles are used to melt or burn solid

funnel and filter paper. A tube near the top prevents

chemicals over a burner. They are made from

unwanted pressure buildup. The process can be

heat-resistant ceramics to prevent

accelerated with a vacuum pump. Browsefiltering

breakage. Shop crucibles.

flasks.
Graduated cylinders are used for precise and

A mortar and pestle is used to crush up solid

accurate measurement. Smaller sizes can be more

chemicals into smaller pieces, or to grind solids

accurate, but hold less volume, while larger sizes

into fine powder. This makes dissolving solids into

sacrifice accuracy for volume. View moregraduated

solutions much easier. See all sizes of mortars

cylinders.

and pestles.

Bottles are used to store solid and liquid chemicals for

Stoppers are used to seal narrow-mouth

extended periods of time. Barnes bottles (pictured) are

containers such as flasks and test tubes, and to

small bottles with dropper lids for drop-by-drop

hold pieces of glass tubing for distillation

measurement. Shop various bottles.

experiments, or to mount thermometers inside a

flask. Browse all stoppers,solid, one- and twohole.

Test tubes are used to observe chemical reactions, mix

Glass tubing is usually inserted into stoppers to

solutions, heat solutions, melt or burn solids, and

attach rubber tubing, but it can also be used to

perform chemical analysis. See all test tube sizes.

splice two pieces of rubber tubing. It can be cut

with a file or tubing cutter and shaped with a
flame. Shop glasstubing.

Pipettes or droppers (pictured) are used to measure or

Rubber tubing is used to connect evaporating

transfer liquids a few drops at a time.Mohr pipettes are

chambers, flasks, condensers, and other

graduated pipettes used for precise

glassware, usually in distillation processes. See

measurement. Browse pipettes.

more rubber tubing.

Burettes are used to measure liquids drop-by-drop for

Watch glasses can be used to cover beakers,

titration experiments or other experiments requiring

evaporate water from solutions, weigh out solid

precise measurement. View all burettesand

chemicals, or observe samples under a stereo

accessories.

microscope. View all watch glasses.

Condensers are used to condense chemical vapor into

Wash bottles are plastic bottles with a nozzle at

a liquid. This is done by sending the vapor through a

the top for rinsing glassware, cleaning/disinfecting,

long (often coiled) glass tube to cool. Shop

or applying solutions. They can be filled with a

condensers and accessories.

variety of reagents, such as water or

alcohol. Look at washbottles.