Keywords you need to know for assignment 1

Keywords you need to know!

Learn them

•Science environment: any location where science is carried out as part of the day-to-day routine

•Procedure: method of conducting the business

•Calibration: checking that equipment is working to a set standard

•Hierarchy: a number of people arranged in order of rank

•Centrifuge: piece of equipment used to separate solids & liquids, particles of different sizes or liquids of different densities.

•Microscope: optical instrument used for magnifying very small things so that they are visible to the naked eye.

•Balance: measures the mass of objects, powders or liquids

•pH meter: measures the pH of a liquid

•Oven: heats substances, often to high temperatures.

•Incubator: maintains objects or substances at a particular temperature, often human body temperature.

•Fume cupboard: protects the operator & others from hazardous fumes & powders.

•Graduated pipette: measures liquids for use.

•Heating mantle: a source of heat when a naked flame could be dangerous.

•Burette: a graduated glass tube with a tap at one end used to perform titrations.

•Bunsen burner: a source of heat where a naked flame is required or where it would not be dangerous.

•Desiccators: a vessel containing a substance that attracts moisture so keeping the contents drier than the open atmosphere.

•Oscilloscope: used to measure voltage & frequency in electric circuits.