Scientists use lots of different types of equipment for very different things depending on what we are doing. I use a furnace that heats things to a thousand degrees, a laser to measure things, computers to help look at all the data, a box that keeps air out for chemicals that go off just touching air, electron microscopes that can see things even smaller than light (x100,000 zoom) and other things as well.
My main equipment I use are things to measure out liquids and solids such as measure cylinders and beakers, scales and pipettes (to measure very small amounts of liquid). I then also use very specialised equipment like a high pressure vessel than can heat up my samples to a very high temperature or a hand held xray machine to measure chemicals in my plants such as silica. The best equipment I use is my robots. I have two and the one measures out a lot of small amount of material and the other does my experiment for me. The reason I have these robots is so that they can do lots more experiments than I could do on just my own. You can watch my robots working on this video that I made quite a while ago (ask your teacher for help to watch it).
Like Caragh said, I use a lot of things to measure out liquids and solids. I also some glass equipment that’s like a big cooking pot to make my polymers in!
My most important pieces of equipment are the microscopes. The one I use most is called a confocal microscope and uses lasers instead of normal light, the lasers make the dyes i use on my plant slices shine different colours which helps me work out what things I’m seeing. It costs about half a million pounds and I share it and the other microscopes with the other scientists where I work
I use loads of different things. I have a few incubators I keep bees in at the same temperature found within the hive. I have a bee suit I use and I have a golf buggy I drive to the beehives (as sometimes carrying hives can be really difficult!). I also have a lot of pipettes and various tubes to store RNA to work out gene expression levels to various pathogens in the honey bees. And I have a lot of tubes and plates to grow fungus on.
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