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Chemistry: 1.2 Lab Vocab 95 Views
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We've got some fab lab vocab for you today. Unfortunately, it doesn't have anything to do with Labradors...but it could help you not die in a laboratory. Fair trade, we say.
Transcript
- 00:04
okay so if you plan to use all that funky stuff in the chem lab [Scientist running around while lab on fire]
- 00:07
without blowing off a hand or breathing in something that'll send your lungs [Scientist puts out fire with extinguisher]
- 00:10
into paroxysms of pain you may want to be just a wee bit familiar with the
- 00:15
equipment you'll be using we're going to throw a handful of items echa first will [Man throws items at another man]
- 00:19
tell you what it's not and will tell you what it is
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- 00:22
beaker a beaker is not this guy beaker is just his name what can we say his [Man with puppet's face appears]
- 00:28
parents were cool nimi and ease this is the sort of beaker
- 00:32
you're likely to find in a chemistry lab if a glass container used to hold a
- 00:36
liquid or other material so you don't have to hold it in your hand [Man pours liquid from beaker into hand]
- 00:39
Bunsen burner a Bunsen burner is not this thing if anything that's a bun
- 00:44
burner yeah great for toning those gluteus maximus muscles not so much for [Woman stretching outdoors]
- 00:48
making advancements in science a Bunsen burner is built in flame source you'll
- 00:52
be using anytime you need to heat up it's safer than starting a bonfire at [Scientist heating up kebab with bunsen burner]
- 00:56
your lab station are to roast marshmallows on but if you take the good
- 01:00
with the bad chemical fume hood now these are not worn by smokers to give [Man smoking cigarette]
- 01:04
themselves maximum exposure alone killing fume a chemical fume hood is
- 01:09
actually a large box ish sort of thing with a glass window that allows you or [Fume hood appears]
- 01:14
your fellow scientists to work with toxic or dangerous substances without
- 01:18
introducing them into your respiratory system because you don't want to start [Scientist coughs blood on sheet of paper]
- 01:22
talking up a Lud when I get all over your lab note quite crucial a crucible
- 01:27
is not an award-winning play by Arthur Miller well okay it is but we're talking
- 01:32
about the small port one container you might use to burn certain materials the [A porcelin container appears]
- 01:36
crucible can withstand very high temperature so it won't melt bad news
- 01:40
for you experimental artists out there Erlenmeyer flasks not a rounded bottle [Man places sausage into erlenmeyer flask]
- 01:45
you store baloney that would be an Oscar Mayer class and
- 01:48
fortunately those don't exist an Erlenmeyer flask is a glass container
- 01:52
much like a beaker but with a narrow neck they're much better than beakers [Necklace appears in erlenmeyer flask]
- 01:56
when it comes to wearing jewelry funnel a funnel is not a really fun underground
- 02:02
tunnel also those are kittens with wings a funnel is a tool [Kids poking at bats in a tunnel]
- 02:06
usually glass with one wide end and one narrow end used to transfer substances
- 02:11
from one place to another like children from an underground tunnel goggles
- 02:16
goggles goggles is not the term for a family of geese [A family of geese appear at family table]
- 02:20
that's a gaggle this however is a gaggle of goggle strap one of these bad boys
- 02:25
over your eye before working with any dangerous substance in the lab it may [Scientist working in lab with goggles]
- 02:29
sound cornea but if you want to be a good pupil do a so phobia and wear your
- 02:35
goggles iris pie plate not the fajita dish served at chilly the they bring [Waiter presents fajita dish to couple at restaurant]
- 02:40
your table always be nice although you have to be careful with those do in the
- 02:45
lab a hot plate is a heat source without an open flame it is definitely
- 02:49
Frankenstein's heat source of preference pipette pipette is not a smoking device [Woman smoking cigarette]
- 02:54
for the lady so it's one of these guys basically an eyedropper thing for
- 02:59
extracting small amounts of liquid not what you want to use to change out the [Man using pipette to transfer out swimming pool water]
- 03:03
water in your swimming pool and finally pause I said it song does that large
- 03:08
metal plier like devices use to hold or pick up stuff you'd rather not touch [Man using tongs to pick up beaker]
- 03:12
with your fingers but if you ever get caught using them to pick your nose well
- 03:16
you're going to be taking a timeout in the emergency shower [Woman under a shower]
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