16 ) Lab Essentials : Funnel

Microbiology Lab Essentials :

Glasswares :

16) Funnel : A filter funnel is a laboratory funnel used for separating solids from liquids via the laboratory process of filtering. In order to achieve this, a cone-like shaped piece of filter paper is usually folded into a cone and placed within the funnel. 

The suspension of solid and liquid is then poured through the funnel

Reusable products can be sterilized in an autoclave.

A funnel is a tube or pipe that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, used for guiding liquid or powder into a small opening. Funnels are usually made of stainless steel, aluminium, glass, or plastic.

The lead generation piece (which we touched on yesterday 🤗)
utensil that is usually a hollow cone with a tube extending from the smaller end and that is designed to catch and direct a downward flow something shaped like a funnel.

Ernst Büchner (18 March 1850 – 25 April 1924) was the German industrial chemist after whom the Büchner flask and Büchner funnel are named.