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Objects and Instruments
In this lesson you will learn about some of the instruments that chemists, biologists, physicists, and other scientists use.
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| aperture | A hole, gap, slit, or other opening. |
| apparatus | Tools or other equipment that is put to a specific use; a group of parts used together for a particular job or function. |
| centrifuge | A rapidly spinning machine used to separate two substances that have different weights and densities. |
| component | Any of the parts that together make up a whole. |
| gauge | A tool used to measure pressure, temperature, water level, thickness, speed, and so forth. |
| generator | A machine that changes mechanical enery. |
| laser | An electronic device that sends out an intense beam of energy in the form of light waves. |
| mechanism | (a0 The arrangement of connected parts in a machine (b) A machine. |
| prism | (a) A piece of transparent material that bends light and separates it into colors (b) An object made to cut glass. |
| treadmill | A machine consisting of a wheel or a revolving belt on which a person or animal walks. |
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