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Laboratory Rules


  • 01 Keep perfect silence in the laboratory. It is essential for concentration and successful scientific work.
  • 02 Keep your apparatus carefully, table and note-book neatly.
  • 03 Add reagents in proportionate amounts.
  • 04 Keep the reagents stoppered. Do not change the stoppers of the bottles and also do not disturb the arrangement on the shelf. Keep the reagents at their proper places.
  • 05 Do not throw broken glass pieces, match sticks, filter paper etc. in the sink. Throw them in the waste box kept for the purpose.
  • 06 Shake the test tubes while heating, do not throw hot and concentrated acids, specially conc. sulphuric acid.
  • 07 Pass hydrogen sulphide gas slowly in the solution because it is a very poisonous gas. Do not leave the gas stopper open.
  • 08 Any damage to lab apparatus / equip- ments will have to be made good.
  • 09 Bringing dissection boxes is essential in Biology lab.