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Three beakers, an Erlenmeyer flask, a graduated cylinder and a volumetric flask. Laboratory glassware is a variety of equipment used in scientific work, traditionally made of glass.
Caesium fluoride sample on a watch glass. A watch glass is a circular concave piece of glass used in chemistry as a surface to evaporate a liquid, to hold solids while being weighed, for heating a small amount of substance, and as a cover for a beaker.
A Büchner funnel with a sintered glass disc. A Büchner funnel is a piece of laboratory equipment used in filtration. [1] It is traditionally made of porcelain, but glass and plastic funnels are also available.
A typical kitchen funnel A ceramic Roman kitchen funnel (1st–3rd century AD). A funnel is a tube or pipe that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, used for guiding liquid or powder into a small opening.
A microscope slide prepared in 1855 containing reference specimens from the inner mucosa of the small intestine of a cholera victim.. The origin of the concept was pieces of ivory or bone, containing specimens held between disks of transparent mica, that would slide into the gap between the stage and the objective. [1]
In vitro (Latin for "in glass"; often not italicized in English usage [3] [4] [5]) studies are conducted using components of an organism that have been isolated from their usual biological surroundings, such as microorganisms, cells, or biological molecules.
The word cup comes from Middle English cuppe, from Old English, from Late Latin cuppa, drinking vessel, perhaps variant of Latin cupa, tub, cask. [2] The first known use of the word cup is before the 12th century.
The Petri dish was developed by German physician Julius Richard Petri (after whom the name is given) while working as an assistant to Robert Koch at Berlin University.Petri did not invent the culture dish himself; rather, it was a modified version of Koch's invention [9] which used an agar medium that was developed by Walther Hesse. [10]