Laboratory equipment: names, uses and stencils

How to use it

Choose the equipment you are teaching; tick More equipment for the less common pieces.
Untick Names to show numbers instead, and ask the class to name each piece and say what it is for.
For class: print a sheet to label, with its key on a separate page, or put the pieces on the board, where they stay movable and their labels editable.

These drawings are for naming equipment and its use, not instructions for an experiment. In the laboratory, follow your school's safety rules.

Beaker: Holds, mixes and warms liquids; its marks give only a rough volume.
Conical flask: Holds liquids that are swirled or heated; its narrow neck keeps splashes in.
Round-bottom flask · further equipment: Heats liquids evenly; it needs a stand or a ring to stay upright.
Test tube: Holds small amounts of substances for a reaction or for heating.
Test-tube rack: Holds test tubes upright and keeps them apart.
Measuring cylinder: Measures the volume of a liquid more precisely than a beaker.
Funnel: Pours a liquid into a narrow opening, or holds a filter paper for filtering.
Bunsen burner: Gives a gas flame for heating; its air hole changes the flame.
Tripod · further equipment: Holds a container above a burner, usually on a gauze.
Wire gauze · further equipment: Spreads the heat of the flame under a beaker or flask on a tripod.
Dropper: Adds a liquid drop by drop.
Thermometer: Measures temperature.
Spatula: Takes small amounts of a solid out of its container.
Evaporating dish · further equipment: Heats a solution so that its water evaporates and the solid stays behind.
Clamp stand · further equipment: Holds glassware steady at the height needed.

The names were checked against the school textbooks and terminology references below; the drawings are Bayyinli's own.