LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENTS

Among the many items that would be considered general lab equipment are pipettes, scales, centrifuges, Bunsen burners, freezers, hot plates, incubators, coolers, stirrers, water baths, and fume hoods - to name a few. Instrument are used to measure the units, like flow, pressure, weight etc. Instrument is a part of the equipment. Equipment consists of one or more instruments to perform different kind of activity. For example: weight balance is a equipment.

Instrument & Uses
Petri dish = used for preparation of culture media and the culture of organisms they are in Glass beaker= reagent storage
Glass flask= gastric acid, or other fluid titration
Pasteur pipette= for aspiration and addition of reagents