The respective advantages of graduated cylinders and beakers
When it comes to standard lab equipment in your laboratory, measuring cylinders and beakers are the most common yet useful equipment pieces in your experiments. Each piece of equipment, the graduated measuring cylinder, and beaker serves its own purpose with a specific function in the lab.
Measuring cylinders are more accurate at reading the liquid’s volumes, whereas Glass Beakers are better for stirring and mixing liquids and solids in liquids.
They are both made from the same borosilicate glass, while Glass beakers are more rigid and less brittle and have higher heat resistance, which is essential when melting and mixing solid to liquids and boiling liquids.
Post time: Mar-25-2022
