Chemistry glassware is an essential form of equipment that virtually all labs require. Glassware offers a wide variety of advantages that allow researchers to successfully carry out experiments and tests. For example, the transparency of laboratory glassware allows users to easily monitor its contents because glass can withstand high temperatures, and glassware doesn’t react with chemicals and other substances that could skew results. Due to its many practical benefits, a wide variety of different types of lab equipment consist of glass. To learn more about the many different types of laboratory glassware and their uses, continue reading.

Beakers

Beakers are some of the most basic lab glassware used. They are simple, lipped cylindrical containers that hold liquid samples.

Erlenmeyer flask

Also known as conical flasks, Erlenmeyer flasks have a flat bottom, conical body, and cylindrical neck. You can use this type of laboratory glassware to easily pour solutions or store samples. Such tasks are now simple to carry out due to their narrow, cylindrical neck.

Filter flasks

Filter flasks have a shape similar to Erlenmeyer flasks. However, they typically has a thicker wall and include a small side tube, which allows users to connect them to a suction pump. Their main function is to receive a filtering liquid.

Separatory funnels

Separatory funnels are a type of procedural chemistry glassware that have a wide top and a very narrow bottom which leads to a stopcock. They are for the precise separation of liquids that have different densities and solubilities.

Test tube

It is rare to find a lab without test tubes. This common type of lab glassware holds, heats, and mixes chemical experiments or growing microorganisms. One can characterize them by their long, cylindrical form and U-shaped bottom with an open top.

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