How Lab Hot Plates Are Used In A Laboratory Enviroment

There is a need to control temperature in global labs and these are vital for experiments and tests. One of the most used and forgotten products found on the lab bench top is the lab hot plate. This product can sometimes be taken for granted because it is used so routinely, and not treated as well as the higher technological products.

Of course the heating of fluids within the lab is an important part of chemical research. Beakers filled with mixtures that can only bind when manipulated and heated at the same time can benefit from a hot plate stirrer, and flocculation can also occur for other mixers when using this instrument. Hot plates are simple and humble pieces of lab equipment, but if you are a researcher in the laboratory, how often do you actually use this equipment?

The stirrers not only mix liquids constantly, but also the temperature of the liquid can be regulated and adjusted at will. Microprocessor controls can be programmed for timing and temperature, and even rate of spin for the mixer pill. The mixer pill, also known as a ‘flea’, is a bar magnet covered in plastic, which spins, under a heating element by a magnetic platform. The element to be heated is of a ceramic property, so that the magnetic spinner does not interfere with another substance. This is an effective system and one that can be found in almost every biochemistry lab around the world.

These hot plate laboratory stirrer devices are certainly one of the key bioscience lab tools and have certainly found a very targeted use for many disciplines of chemistry.

These products are also important for the catalytical reactions needed  to produce certain compounds and these compounds are then blended with other substances to make drugs for the general population. In other bioscience disciplines, such as farming chemistry, hot plate stirrers can be found doing their thing to produce pesticides or fertilisers that are environmentally friendly.