When working in the lab, it is important to be familiar with the equipment you will be using.
Familiarity will help with understanding directions, asking questions, and being efficient.
- Scale-used to measure the mass of solid materials
- Micropipettes-used to sterilely transfer small volumes of liquid
- Serological Pipettes-used to sterilely transfer larger volumes of liquid
- Nanodrop-used to measure the absorbance or optical density of a liquid
- Centrifuge-used to separate components of liquids based on density
- Centrifuge Tube-capsule that is safe to use in a centrifuge
- Microcentrifuge Tube-capsule that is safe to use in a centrifuge
- Vortex-used to mix solutions in small tubes
- Incubator-used to maintain a constant temperature for cells to grow
- pH Meter-used to measure pH
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