Graduated measuring cylinder, and beaker serves its own purpose
Most common laboratory glassware as lab equipment is easy to clean and autoclave, and can be reused again and again with the right care, and can be used to measure, mix, boil, crystallize, evaporate, dissolve, store, and much more.
Let’s Talk about the most common lab equipment, the glass beaker, first.
A Glass beaker is a simple glassware piece that resembles a coffee mug without the handle, with a wide cylindrical shape with a flat bottom and a small outward turned-out lip used for pouring liquids with ease. On its side are markings that denote approximately how much liquid is inside.
Laboratory beakers are commonly used for stirring, mixing and heating liquids found in laboratory settings. The capacity of a glass beaker ranges from 10ml to 1L.
A Measuring Cylinder is also called a Graduated Glass Cylinder, is a classic piece of laboratory glassware. It measures the volume of a liquid in milliliters (ml).
They were primarily used to measure the volume of an object or amount of liquid; as the name indicates, it’s a glass cylinder with marks along the side similar to those on a measuring cup.
The volume is accurately read by looking at the top of the fluid from the side angle and reading the glass’s mark from the lowest portion meniscus (liquid lens) of the liquid.
For accurate volumetric measurements, measuring cylinders are designed explicitly with graduated markers classified in (ml).
Taking a reading before inserting an object in the graduated cylinder and then after inserting it, one can tell the object’s volume from the difference between the two readings and subsequently calculate its density.
Post time: Mar-24-2022
