laboratory apparatus

Tools for experiments

Laboratory apparatus refers collectively to the equipment and instruments used for scientific experiments and procedures—beakers, test tubes, Bunsen burners, microscopes, and the like.

The term appears in educational and professional contexts: The chemistry lab was stocked with standard laboratory apparatus.

Individual items are pieces of apparatus.

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balance · fume hood · pipette · microscope · thermometer · burette · centrifuge · hot plate · cryostat · autoclave · mass spectrometer · water bath · heat gun · wash bottle · filter paper · graduated cylinder · Erlenmeyer flask · pH meter

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domestic appliances · consumer goods · kitchen utensils · office supplies · industrial machinery

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Objects used domestically

everyday objects · hand tools · primitive tools · found objects

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