All 28 Science Lab Equipment flashcards. Free.
The whole deck, not a sample — Science Lab Equipment is 28 cards, which is no longer than the 30 we give away on every deck, so there is nothing left to charge for. 13 pages, US Letter, black and white. Grades 7–12.
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13 pages, and the backs are already right
Every front sheet is followed by its own back sheet with the rows reversed. Print double-sided, flip on the long edge, and answer number 7 is behind question number 7. Print a deck you built yourself, flip on the short edge, and every answer lands on the wrong card — which nobody finds out until sixty cards have been cut apart.
- 28 cards — counted out of the file, not rounded up
- Eight cards a sheet, with cut guides
- US Letter PDF, black and white, photocopier-friendly
- Print a set per student, every class, every year
28 cards — the apparatus on a school chemistry bench, one card each. Every card here is sourced to two independent university teaching labs or reference works; items we could not verify to that standard were left out rather than guessed at.
Every card here is cited to two independent sources
Two different organisations — not a standards body and a website reprinting it — and a script refuses the card if the two disagree, so the check runs on every card rather than on the ones somebody remembered to look at. A second specialist then re-verified this deck from sources of their own, without reading our citations first. A further 5,420 cards across 30 other decks were read end to end by a subject specialist instead, and we say which is which on every deck rather than averaging the two into one flattering word.
What 28 printed cards do that a screen does not
A phone deck is one card at a time. A printed deck is a pile you can split: the ones you know, the ones you nearly know, and the ones you keep missing. That third pile is the entire study session, and it is the thing a scrolling app hides from you.
- Print once, use all year. The licence covers a set per student, every class, every year.
- No device, no login, no data. Works in a cover lesson, on a bus, or at a kitchen table. Grades 7–12, filed under science.
- Change what you disagree with. Every card loads into the free maker on this site. Reword it, drop it, add your own, reprint.
Here are all 28 cards
Check them against your own textbook before you spend anything.
- Beaker
- Holds, mixes and heats liquid. Its printed marks are only about ±5%, so it does not measure
- Erlenmeyer flask (conical flask)
- Narrow neck lets you swirl without spilling — mixing, transporting, reacting, filtering. Marks ±5%
- Graduated cylinder
- Measures volume to about ±1%, far better than a beaker. Read the bottom of the meniscus at eye level
- Volumetric flask
- One etched ring on the neck marks a single calibrated volume — for making up a solution of known concentration
- Volumetric pipette
- Delivers one fixed volume — Class A tolerance is absolute, so ±0.05 mL at 50 mL but proportionally worse when small
- Burette (US: buret)
- Graduated tube with a stopcock; delivers a variable volume by difference, read to two decimals
- Pipette bulb (pipette filler)
- Draws liquid up into a pipette. It exists so that nobody ever pipettes by mouth
- Test tube
- Holds and mixes a small sample. Non-volumetric: it measures nothing
- Test tube holder (test tube clamp)
- Grips a hot test tube so it is never held in the fingers
- Watch glass
- Shallow glass disc — covers a beaker, holds a small solid, or evaporates a few drops
- Evaporating dish
- Wide shallow porcelain dish; boils the solvent off a solution to leave the dissolved solid behind
- Crucible and lid
- Porcelain cup for strong heating — ignition or ashing to constant mass. Porcelain takes about 1000 °C
- Crucible tongs
- Lifts a hot crucible or dish. Curved tips grip it; bare hands and cloth do not
- Clay triangle (pipeclay triangle)
- Sits in the iron ring and cradles a crucible or dish, leaving its base open to the flame
- Wire gauze
- Sits in the iron ring and spreads the flame under a beaker or flask; also a rest for hot ware
- Bunsen burner
- Gas burner. The air hole sets the gas–air mix; the flame is hottest just above the inner blue cone
- Ring stand and iron ring
- The support frame. The ring carries gauze, a clay triangle or a funnel above the burner
- Utility clamp
- Clamps a flask or tube by the neck to the ring stand so it cannot tip over
- Burette clamp
- Holds one or two burettes upright on a ring stand for a titration
- Glass stirring rod
- Stirs a solution, and guides the liquid down the outside when decanting or pouring
- Rubber policeman
- Rubber blade on a stirring rod; scrapes wet solid off glass without scratching it
- Spatula
- Scoops and transfers a dry solid a little at a time — the tool for weighing out a chemical
- Wash bottle
- Squeeze bottle of pure water; rinses glassware and washes the last of a solid into the vessel
- Filter funnel and filter paper
- Gravity filtration: fold the paper to a cone, wet it, rest the stem on the beaker wall
- Beaker tongs
- Lifts a hot beaker off a hot plate or gauze without touching the glass
- Hot plate with magnetic stirrer
- Heats without a flame and, with a stir bar dropped in, stirs the liquid at the same time
- Thermometer
- Reads temperature — an analogue scale is read to one estimated digit past the marks
- Safety goggles
- Splash goggles, worn the whole time you are in the lab — not only while you are working
Questions
- How do I print them double-sided?
- Double-sided, flip on the long edge. Every front sheet is followed by its own already-mirrored back sheet, so print them in the order they come and every answer lands on its own card.
- Can I edit the cards?
- Yes, and that is half the point. Once you own the deck, the "Buy & edit" button here opens all 28 cards in the free flash card maker on this site — reword a definition, delete the ones you do not teach, add your own, and print at anything from two to nine cards a page, rather than the fixed eight of the PDF.
- Can I print a set for every student?
- Yes. Personal and classroom licence: unlimited printing, every class you teach, every year you teach it. It does not cover reselling the file or passing it on to a colleague.
- What if I find a card that is wrong?
- Tell us and we fix it, and we publish what changed. We have withdrawn a whole deck from sale for being out of date rather than quietly patch it.
- Do I need an account?
- No. The file downloads straight away — no account, no email, no card details.