Laboratory

Laboratory Rules

1. Keep your apparatus, table, and notebook neat and clean.
2. Add reagents in proportionate amounts. This is the key to success.
3. Keep the reagents stoppered, do not change the stoppers of the bottles and also do not disturb the arrangement of the shelf. Keep the reagents at their proper place.
4. Do not shift the bottles from the common shelf.
5. Do not throw broken glass pieces, matchsticks, filter paper, etc., in the sink. Throw them in the waste box kept for the purpose.
6. Shake the test tubes while heating. Do not throw hot and concentrated acids, especially concentrated sulfuric acid.
7. Pass Hydrogen sulfide gas slowly into the solution. It is a very poisonous gas, do not leave the gas stopper open.
8. Keep perfect silence in the laboratory. It is essential for concentration and successful scientific working.
9. Do not enter the lab without white overalls (Lab coats).