February 22, 2021

Some Popular Lab Equipment Names And Their Uses

Various types of lab equipment are required in any kind of functional laboratory in order to run their operations properly. The requirement for equipment is different for different laboratories. For example, in an engineering laboratory specific structural engineering equipments are required, for a biology lab, equipments like microscope, beakers are required and chemistry and physics labs also have similar other equipments.

Most of the reputed Structural Engineering Lab Equipment Manufacturers manufactures the best lab equipments for engineering as well as for other science labs.

Some Lab equipments based on the type of lab

Engineering labs

Mechanical tools and machines: Simple mechanical tools like strippers, shear cutters, precision screwdrivers are the basic requirements of most of the engineering labs. These simple tools help in performing the complex tasks more easily.

Besides there are also complex mechanical machines like CNC milling machine, CNC lathe, CNC router, CNC plasma cutter which helps in cutting hard items like steel, iron, wood precisely and give the perfect shapes the products require.

Multimeter: Multimeters are handheld devices that are widely used in most of the engineering labs as it helps in measurement of voltage, current and resistance. These devices either have analog or digital displays which give the most accurate measurement values with high degree of accuracy.

Deflection temperature testers: A deflection temperature tester helps in determining the specific temperature at which a polymer can bear a given load.

Biology labs

Microscope: A microscope is one of the most popular lab equipment which helps in observing very minute things which are not visible to naked human eyes. There are many types of microscope:

i. Light microscope: In a light microscope light as well as a series of magnifying lenses are used for the observing a ting specimen.

ii. Electron microscope: These microscopes are considered as more powerful as it uses a beam of electrons for the formation of a magnified image.

iii. Crucible: A crucible is a type of laboratory glassware which is resistant to high heat and is the best apparatus which can be used when a compound is needed to be heated at a high temperature. It also has a lid which holds particles of smoke.

Physics labs

Spring balance: This equipment is a scale which is also known as Newton meter and is used for measuring the weight of a specific object with the help of the tension of a spring. It only consists of a spring on one side and a hook on the other. It’s working principle is based on Hooke’s law and measures only weight of an object and not mass.

Ammeter: This is the most common equipment of a physics lab. It is the most commonly used for measuring the amount of current in a circuit.

Beside these equipments there are many other structural engineering lab equipments as well as educational school lab equipments which are widely in use.