Category: Laboratory Equipment

Laboratory Equipment refers to the various tools and equipment used by scientists working in a laboratory:

The classical equipment includes tools such as Bunsen burners and microscopes as well as specialty equipment such as operant conditioning chambers, spectrophotometers and calorimeters.

Chemical laboratories

• laboratory glassware such as the beaker or reagent bottle
• Analytical devices as HPLC or spectrophotometers

Molecular biology laboratories + Life science laboratories

• Autoclave
• Microscope
• Centrifuges
• Shakers & mixers
• Pipette
• Thermal cyclers (PCR)
• Photometer
• Refrigerators and Freezers
• Universal testing machine
• ULT Freezers
• Incubators
• Bioreactor
• Biological safety cabinets
• Sequencing instruments
• Fume hoods
• Environmental chamber
• Humidifier
• Weighing scale
• Reagents (supply)
• Pipettes tips (supply)
• Polymer (supply) consumables for small volumes (µL and mL scale), mainly sterile

Laboratory equipment is generally used to either perform an experiment or to take measurements and gather data. Larger or more sophisticated equipment is generally called a scientific instrument.