Science Laboratory Equipment

Every science experiment using many kind of equipment, the equipment use depends on the kind of science that is researched. Science is now a part of almost knowledge, such as engineering, technology, physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology and many others. So the equipment of science depends on the main subject.

Laboratory in biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics also have different equipment to do their experiment. Physics and Mathematics may have much similar equipment for their experiment, but with chemistry and biology may too far different. Chemistry and biology mostly have similar equipment for their laboratory. Chemist and biologist usually mostly use glass apparatus, such as pipette tube, flask glass, cylinder glass, extractor glass, measuring cylinder and many other glass equipments.

Glass Material
Glass is an amorphous substance made by heating a mixture of such materials as sand, sodium carbonate, and limestone to a temperature of about 1,300 oC (2,400 oF). It is made continuously in large tanks, powdered raw materials are fed in at one end, and molten glass emerges at other end.

Glass product quality depends on the material that composed the glass, glass equipments have many quality that depend on the material and the measuring accuracy. More accurate on measure of volume, the glass more expensive. Glass with good material will more hold up to higher temperature, glass with bad temperature doesn’t hold up of high temperature. The kind of glass material will be discussed more detail on the next articles.