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Common Laboratory Glassware
This contains an illustration of common types of laboratory glassware.
Beaker
An Erlenmeyer flask.
A vacuum flask. Note the difference between this and an Erlenmeyer flask.A watch glassA spatula
A stir rod made of glass.A mortar and pestle. The mortar is the bowl like object and the pestle is the thing in the middle used to grid an object.A graduated cylinderA buretVolumetric pipets. Credit: Riccardo Rovinetti/WikimediaA graduated pipet. Credit: Anisa Ghogar/Wikimedia.