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Lab & Scientific Instruments parts lists

BOMwiki lists 122 products in lab & scientific instruments, with 18,900 parts counted across their recorded bills of materials. The highest recorded part count is the superconductor materials lab at 1,846 parts across 7 top-level items; the lowest is the melt flow indexer at 18. Open a product to explore its recorded components and their roles. Counts describe the current BOMs, not a complete inventory of every product variant.

122 products

Anaerobic Chamber
Anaerobic Chamber Sealed glove box maintaining <0.1% O₂ via active H₂ oxidation catalyst for anaerobic microbiology. 41 parts · 7 BOM lines
Analytical Balance
Analytical Balance A 0.1 mg readability laboratory balance using electromagnetic force restoration to weigh samples inside a draft shield, with motorized internal calibration and a touchscreen interface. 54 parts · 12 BOM lines
Antenna Analyzer
Antenna Analyzer Portable instrument that measures standing wave ratio, return loss, and impedance of antennas using a directional coupler and RF signal source. 40 parts · 7 BOM lines
Arbitrary Waveform Generator
Arbitrary Waveform Generator Dual-channel signal generator producing user-defined waveforms up to 100 MHz with 16-bit resolution and high-speed DAC amplifier outputs. 45 parts · 7 BOM lines
Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
Atomic Absorption Spectrometer A flame/furnace AAS: a hollow-cathode lamp emits an element-specific line, an atomizer turns the sample into a cloud of free atoms that absorb part of that line, and a grating monochromator and photomultiplier measure the absorbance, which tracks the concentration of one metal at a time. 648 parts · 11 BOM lines
Atomic Force Microscope A scanning probe microscope that measures cantilever deflection to map surface topography and mechanical properties with sub-nanometer vertical resolution. 29 parts · 6 BOM lines
Autoclave Sterilizer A benchtop steam autoclave: a heated reservoir boils water into the sealed stainless chamber while a radial-locking door, relief valve and interlock contain pressure through a vacuum-assisted sterilization cycle. 282 parts · 11 BOM lines
Automated Cell Counter
Automated Cell Counter Automated hematology analyzer using imaging optics or Coulter aperture sensing to count and classify cells in suspension with computer analysis. 54 parts · 8 BOM lines
Automated Colony Counter An automated colony counter: a Petri dish on a uniformly lit stage is photographed by an overhead camera, and an image-processing board finds and counts the bacterial colonies far faster and more consistently than counting by eye. 322 parts · 8 BOM lines
Automated Coverslipper Motorized apparatus applying coverslips and mounting medium to stained slides with precision placement and pressure. 36 parts · 7 BOM lines
Automated Liquid Handler
Automated Liquid Handler A robotic pipetting workstation: a deck holds labware in fixed positions while an X-Y-Z gantry carries a multi-channel pipetting head, and syringe pumps draw and dispense microliter volumes through disposable tips under software control. 817 parts · 11 BOM lines
Automatic Polarimeter Optical instrument measuring optical rotation of chiral compounds via polarizer/analyzer optics, rotating sample stage, and automatic endpoint detection. 51 parts · 8 BOM lines
Automatic Titrator An automated potentiometric titrator that dispenses titrant from a motorized burette in controlled increments while an electrode tracks the endpoint, computing concentration from the volume added at the equivalence point. 65 parts · 10 BOM lines
Benchtop Bioreactor A stirred-tank benchtop bioreactor: a jacketed glass vessel grows cells or microbes while an agitator mixes the broth, a sparger feeds gas, probes track pH, dissolved oxygen and temperature, and a control tower closes every loop. 487 parts · 8 BOM lines
Biosafety Cabinet
Biosafety Cabinet Class II biological safety cabinet with HEPA-filtered positive pressure plenums and downward laminar airflow, providing both operator and environmental protection during handling of biohazardous materials. 33 parts · 8 BOM lines
Cassette Tissue Processor An automated histology processor that cyclically moves tissue specimens through stations of fixative, dehydrating alcohols, clearing agents, and paraffin infiltration with programmable timing and temperature control. 35 parts · 9 BOM lines
Charpy Impact Tester
Charpy Impact Tester Pendulum hammer pivoted at height and released to strike a notched specimen, measuring absorbed energy to assess material toughness at controlled temperatures. 25 parts · 7 BOM lines
Climate Test Chamber
Climate Test Chamber An environmental test chamber that holds a controlled temperature and humidity over a wide range by balancing a refrigeration system against electric heaters and a humidification/dehumidification circuit inside an insulated, sealed cabinet. 64 parts · 11 BOM lines
Cloud Chamber
Cloud Chamber Diffusion chamber detecting ionizing radiation through cloud tracks of supersaturated alcohol vapor condensing on ionization trails. 32 parts · 8 BOM lines
CO2 Incubator
CO2 Incubator Laboratory incubator maintaining temperature, humidity, and CO2 concentration for cell culture via heated chamber, gas injection, humidity control, and infrared monitoring. 46 parts · 8 BOM lines
Conductivity Analyzer An on-line analyzer measuring electrical conductivity of aqueous solutions via a toroidal or contacting electrode pair, determining total dissolved solids. 29 parts · 6 BOM lines
Confocal Microscope
Confocal Microscope A laser-scanning confocal microscope: lasers excite fluorescence point by point as galvo mirrors raster the beam across the sample, a pinhole rejects out-of-focus light, and photomultipliers build an optically sectioned image one focal plane at a time. 745 parts · 10 BOM lines
Coriolis Flow Meter
Coriolis Flow Meter A precision mass flow meter that vibrates U-shaped measuring tubes through which liquid or gas flows, detecting Coriolis deflection via pickoff sensors. 32 parts · 7 BOM lines
Cryostat Microtome
Cryostat Microtome Refrigerated chamber microtome that maintains samples at -20°C to -40°C for thin frozen-section cutting. 38 parts · 7 BOM lines
Curve Tracer
Curve Tracer Semiconductor test instrument that applies swept voltage and current to a device, plotting I-V curves on a CRT display to characterize transistors, diodes, and ICs. 36 parts · 7 BOM lines
Digital Oscilloscope
Digital Oscilloscope Digital oscilloscope with analog front ends, ADC system, acquisition memory, FPGA processing, and display for time-domain waveform capture and analysis. 96 parts · 8 BOM lines
Digital Refractometer
Digital Refractometer A benchtop instrument that measures the refractive index of a liquid by detecting the critical angle of total internal reflection at a prism surface, using an LED source and a linear detector array, with active temperature control for accuracy. 42 parts · 10 BOM lines
Digital Theodolite
Digital Theodolite Portable electronic angle measurement instrument with two-axis rotary encoders, digital display, and memory for bearing and zenith angle survey work. 26 parts · 7 BOM lines
Digital USB Microscope
Digital USB Microscope A compact portable microscope with an integrated CMOS image sensor and USB interface, designed for digital inspection and documentation. 22 parts · 5 BOM lines
Digital/Bar-Code Level Electronic level with photoelectric staff reader for automatic elevation measurement from bar-code graduated rods. 28 parts · 6 BOM lines
Dissolution Tester A pharmaceutical dissolution apparatus: a heated water bath holds a row of vessels at body temperature, motor-driven paddles or baskets stir each one, and an auto-sampler draws timed aliquots so the release rate of a tablet's drug can be measured. 370 parts · 8 BOM lines
Drop Tester
Drop Tester Vertical drop test apparatus that lifts a packaged product to a calibrated height and releases it to free-fall onto a solid impact surface, assessing package damage resistance per ISTA 1A and ASTM D5276. 31 parts · 6 BOM lines
Earth Ground Tester Handheld instrument that measures the resistance of earth grounding systems by injecting AC current between stakes and computing ground electrode resistance without disconnecting them. 39 parts · 7 BOM lines
Electrodynamic Shaker Vibration testing machine using electromagnetic force to apply controlled sinusoidal, random, or shock waveforms to mounted specimens up to 100 kN peak force. 25 parts · 7 BOM lines
Electronic DC Load Programmable current sink that absorbs up to 150A at 600V, simulating variable DC load with constant-current, constant-power, and constant-resistance modes. 72 parts · 9 BOM lines
Embedding Station Heated paraffin workstation with dual-temperature zones for sample infiltration and block mold cooling. 27 parts · 6 BOM lines
Fatigue Testing Rig
Fatigue Testing Rig Servo-hydraulic or electromechanical machine applying cyclic sinusoidal loads (tension-compression or bending) at frequencies up to 50 Hz to determine S-N curves and fatigue life. 412 parts · 8 BOM lines
Flash Point Tester Apparatus heating a liquid fuel sample in a closed cup and igniting its vapors with a test flame, measuring the minimum temperature at which the vapor ignites (flash point per ASTM D92 or D1310). 18 parts · 7 BOM lines
Flow Cytometer
Flow Cytometer An instrument that hydrodynamically focuses a cell suspension into a single-file stream, interrogates each cell with focused laser beams, and measures scattered and fluorescent light on an array of detectors to characterize thousands of cells per second. 110 parts · 11 BOM lines
Fraction Collector
Fraction Collector A chromatography fraction collector: a motorized rack indexes rows of tubes under a dispensing arm that moves on ball-screw axes, dropping the eluate stream into each tube in turn while a drop sensor and diverter valve avoid spills between positions. 269 parts · 9 BOM lines
Freeze Dryer A laboratory freeze dryer (lyophilizer): frozen samples are held under deep vacuum while a refrigerated ice trap captures the water that sublimes off, drying biologicals and reagents without ever passing through the liquid phase. 317 parts · 11 BOM lines
Freezing-Point Osmometer
Freezing-Point Osmometer Laboratory osmometer measuring solution osmolality via freezing-point depression using a cooling well, thermistor probe, and crystallization stirrer. 48 parts · 8 BOM lines
FTIR Spectrometer
FTIR Spectrometer Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer using an interferometer (beamsplitter and moving mirror) to acquire broadband IR absorption spectra for molecular identification and composition analysis. 32 parts · 7 BOM lines
Fume Hood
Fume Hood A ducted laboratory fume hood: a chemical-resistant superstructure draws contaminated air past the work zone through baffles into an exhaust plenum, where a centrifugal blower pulls it to the building stack while a face-velocity monitor watches containment. 113 parts · 9 BOM lines
Gas Chromatograph
Gas Chromatograph A gas chromatograph (GC): a sample is vaporized in a heated injector, swept by a carrier gas through a temperature-programmed capillary column that separates the components, and measured one by one at a detector to identify and quantify a mixture. 450 parts · 10 BOM lines
Gel Documentation System
Gel Documentation System Darkroom cabinet with UV/blue transilluminator, charge-coupled device (CCD) camera, and software for gel image capture. 26 parts · 5 BOM lines
Gel Electrophoresis System
Gel Electrophoresis System A horizontal gel electrophoresis system: a buffer tank holds an agarose gel between platinum electrodes, and a high-voltage power supply drives charged DNA, RNA, or protein fragments through the gel so they separate by size. 173 parts · 6 BOM lines
GNSS RTK Rover
GNSS RTK Rover Multi-constellation satellite receiver with real-time kinematic correction over radio or cellular, delivering centimeter-level positioning without local base stations. 35 parts · 7 BOM lines
GPS-Disciplined Oscillator
GPS-Disciplined Oscillator Precision frequency reference that locks an oven-controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO) to GPS satellite signals, providing 10 MHz output with <10 ppb frequency accuracy and <50 ns phase jitter. 48 parts · 8 BOM lines
Ground Penetrating Radar
Ground Penetrating Radar Portable radar system with UWB antenna and processor for mapping subsurface structure (utilities, geological layers, voids). 38 parts · 7 BOM lines
Histology Embedding Center
Histology Embedding Center A benchtop instrument for embedding tissue specimens in paraffin wax, maintaining precise temperature control and providing mold warming for consistent block preparation. 31 parts · 8 BOM lines
HPLC System
HPLC System High-performance liquid chromatography system for compound separation and analysis using a quaternary pump, autosampler, heated column oven, and UV/Vis detector. 37 parts · 7 BOM lines
Impedance Analyzer
Impedance Analyzer Laboratory instrument measuring complex impedance (magnitude and phase) of components from 42 Hz to 30 MHz using a four-terminal auto-balancing bridge. 54 parts · 8 BOM lines
Incubated Shaker
Incubated Shaker A benchtop incubated shaker: an insulated chamber holds flasks on an orbital platform whose eccentric drive swirls the culture, while a heater and circulating air keep the chamber at a set temperature for microbial and cell growth. 342 parts · 9 BOM lines
Insulation Resistance Tester
Insulation Resistance Tester High-voltage test instrument that applies 500V to 10kV between electrical conductors, measuring insulation resistance to identify deterioration, moisture, and contamination in cables and motors. 41 parts · 7 BOM lines
Inverted Microscope
Inverted Microscope An optical microscope with objective and light path below the stage, allowing observation of live cells in culture dishes without removing them from incubators. 34 parts · 8 BOM lines
Lab Glassware Washer Automated ultrasonic/spray-wash cabinet for pipette tips, flasks, beakers, and glassware with DI rinse and hot-air dry. 42 parts · 7 BOM lines
Lab Nitrogen Generator Pressure-swing-adsorption (PSA) system generating >99.5% pure nitrogen from compressed air. 33 parts · 6 BOM lines
Lab Water Purification System Multi-stage water purification system removing ionic, organic, and microbial contaminants from tap water via reverse osmosis, ion exchange, and UV sterilization, producing ultrapure water (18.2 MΩ·cm resistivity) for analytical and biological applications. 25 parts · 8 BOM lines
Laboratory Centrifuge
Laboratory Centrifuge A refrigerated benchtop centrifuge: a brushless drive spins an interchangeable rotor inside an armored, temperature-controlled bowl while imbalance and lid-lock safeguards keep the rotor contained. 278 parts · 8 BOM lines
Laboratory Glovebox
Laboratory Glovebox Inert-atmosphere sealed chamber with integrated gloves and antechamber, enabling safe handling of air-sensitive or toxic materials under positive pressure inert gas. 43 parts · 8 BOM lines
Laboratory Water Bath
Laboratory Water Bath A digital benchtop water bath: an immersion-heated stainless tank, insulated in a powder-coated housing, holds a stirred liquid at a PID-controlled temperature for incubation, sample warming, and reaction work. 146 parts · 12 BOM lines
Laser Detector Receiver Portable photocell detector with grade rod clamp, audio/visual feedback, and battery power for site work on rotating and line lasers. 22 parts · 6 BOM lines
Laser Particle Size Analyzer
Laser Particle Size Analyzer A laser diffraction particle size analyzer: a laser beam passes through a stream of suspended particles, which scatter the light at angles set by their size; a multi-element detector array measures the scattering pattern and software inverts it into a particle-size distribution. A dispersion cell keeps the sample flowing and well separated. 607 parts · 8 BOM lines
Linear Air Track
Linear Air Track Perforated rail with air blower levitates gliders on an air cushion, enabling near-frictionless motion studies and collision experiments in mechanics. 43 parts · 7 BOM lines
Magnetic Flow Meter
Magnetic Flow Meter A volumetric flow meter that applies a magnetic field across a conducting fluid, measuring induced voltage to determine flow velocity. 32 parts · 6 BOM lines
Magnetic Stirrer
Magnetic Stirrer A laboratory hotplate magnetic stirrer that spins a PTFE stir bar by rotating a magnet bar under the heated top plate, combining a BLDC drive, a cast-in heating element, and a microcontroller that closes the speed and temperature loops. 70 parts · 8 BOM lines
Magnetic Utility Locator
Magnetic Utility Locator Handheld ferromagnetic sensor with audio/visual feedback for detecting buried metallic utilities (pipes, cables, conduits). 24 parts · 7 BOM lines
Mass Spectrometer
Mass Spectrometer An LC-MS triple-stage quadrupole instrument: an electrospray source ionizes the liquid eluent, ion optics focus the beam, a quadrupole filters ions by mass-to-charge, and an electron-multiplier detector counts them, all behind a staged vacuum pumped down by a backing pump and twin turbomolecular pumps. 798 parts · 12 BOM lines
Mechanical Orrery
Mechanical Orrery Clockwork model of the solar system with gear-driven planetary arms that replicate orbital mechanics and periods through mechanical ratios. 116 parts · 7 BOM lines
Melt Flow Indexer
Melt Flow Indexer Apparatus heating a plastic pellet or powder in a barrel, applying a calibrated weight to a piston, and measuring the mass of extruded filament in a fixed time interval, quantifying polymer melt viscosity. 18 parts · 6 BOM lines
Melting Point Apparatus
Melting Point Apparatus Benchtop apparatus for determining organic compound melting points via heated block with capillary tube stations, optical detection, and digital display. 50 parts · 8 BOM lines
Microplate Reader
Microplate Reader A multimode plate reader: a motorized stage steps a 96- or 384-well microplate through an optical head that measures absorbance, fluorescence and luminescence well by well, reporting each well's signal to the host software. 585 parts · 10 BOM lines
Microplate Washer
Microplate Washer An automated ELISA washer: a motorized carriage steps a microplate under a manifold of paired needles that flood each well with buffer and vacuum it dry, removing unbound reagent between assay steps. 316 parts · 9 BOM lines
Microscope
Microscope A compound trinocular laboratory microscope with Köhler LED illumination and a digital camera port. 60 parts · 10 BOM lines
Muffle Furnace
Muffle Furnace A high-temperature laboratory furnace that heats samples to 1100 °C or more in a refractory muffle chamber, isolating the load from the heating elements and combustion products, with PID control and a door safety interlock. 45 parts · 10 BOM lines
Muon Tomography Detector Tracking detector using scintillator, drift, or straw tubes with PMT/SiPM readout and trigger electronics for cosmic-ray muon and particle imaging. 40 parts · 8 BOM lines
NMR Spectrometer
NMR Spectrometer A nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer: a superconducting magnet held near absolute zero in a cryostat produces an intense, ultra-stable field; a probe places the sample in that field and couples it to RF coils; an RF console pulses the nuclei and digitizes their faint return signal, while a lock and gradient system keep the field steady and the sample shimmed. 1,180 parts · 9 BOM lines
Optical Level
Optical Level Precision instrument with internal compensator and horizontal circle for measuring vertical height differences and horizontal angles across construction sites. 25 parts · 6 BOM lines
Orbital Shaker
Orbital Shaker Motorized platform oscillating in orbital pattern at 20–500 rpm, mixing cultures and solutions in flasks. 36 parts · 5 BOM lines
Oxygen Analyzer
Oxygen Analyzer A real-time oxygen concentration analyzer using either a zirconia solid-state cell or paramagnetic sensor to measure O₂ in gases or liquids. 33 parts · 6 BOM lines
PCR Thermocycler
PCR Thermocycler A real-time qPCR thermal cycler that drives 96 sample wells through programmed temperature cycles while reading fluorescence per cycle. 384 parts · 10 BOM lines
pH Meter
pH Meter A benchtop pH/mV meter that reads the millivolt output of a glass combination electrode through a high-impedance amplifier, applies automatic temperature compensation, and shows pH to 0.01 resolution on a touchscreen. 42 parts · 10 BOM lines
Phase Contrast Microscope
Phase Contrast Microscope An upright optical microscope using phase-shifting optical elements to convert refractive-index gradients into amplitude contrast for unstained cell observation. 34 parts · 8 BOM lines
Pipe Laser Self-leveling infrared laser head with grade slope adjustment and remote control, projecting a precise line for underground pipe and duct alignment. 23 parts · 5 BOM lines
Polarizing Microscope
Polarizing Microscope An optical microscope equipped with polarizing optics and retardation plates for visualizing crystalline and birefringent specimens. 32 parts · 8 BOM lines
Pressure Transmitter
Pressure Transmitter A transducer converting static or dynamic fluid pressure into a proportional 4–20 mA analog signal via a piezoresistive or capacitive sensing element. 29 parts · 5 BOM lines
Prism Pole with Prism
Prism Pole with Prism Surveying target pole with corner-cube retroreflector, bubble levels, and quick-change coupling for total station and GNSS rover distance measurement. 23 parts · 6 BOM lines
Process pH Analyzer
Process pH Analyzer An on-line electrochemical analyzer measuring hydrogen ion concentration by sensing the potential difference across a glass/reference electrode pair. 31 parts · 6 BOM lines
Radar Level Transmitter A non-contact level meter using microwave pulses to measure distance to a liquid or solid surface through electromagnetic time-of-flight. 26 parts · 6 BOM lines
Raman Spectrometer Laser-based spectrometer measuring inelastically scattered light (Raman scattering) from molecules to identify chemical composition and molecular structure. 27 parts · 7 BOM lines
Ripple Tank
Ripple Tank Shallow water tank with vibration driver that creates surface waves for studying interference, diffraction, and reflection of wave phenomena in real time. 36 parts · 7 BOM lines
Rockwell Hardness Tester
Rockwell Hardness Tester Indentation hardness machine that applies a calibrated indenter (diamond cone or hardened sphere) to a specimen under programmed load, measuring residual depth to determine hardness on the Rockwell scale. 97 parts · 8 BOM lines
Rotary Evaporator
Rotary Evaporator A rotary evaporator (rotovap): a motor spins a round-bottom flask in a heated water bath under vacuum, so a solvent boils off gently and recondenses on a chilled glass coil into a receiving flask, leaving the product behind. 208 parts · 10 BOM lines
Rotary Microtome Precision rotary microtome that slices paraffin-embedded tissue specimens into 5–15 µm sections for microscopy using a manually-operated handwheel driving a specimen clamp across a fixed razor blade or knife. 28 parts · 7 BOM lines
Rotational Viscometer
Rotational Viscometer An instrument that measures fluid viscosity by rotating a spindle immersed in the sample at a controlled speed and sensing the viscous torque resisting its motion, from which dynamic viscosity is computed. 69 parts · 10 BOM lines
Salt Spray Chamber
Salt Spray Chamber Corrosion test cabinet that atomizes a salt-water solution as fine fog onto test specimens, simulating coastal marine salt-spray environments per ASTM B117. 27 parts · 7 BOM lines
Scanning Electron Microscope
Scanning Electron Microscope A scanning electron microscope: an electron gun emits a beam that electromagnetic lenses focus to a nanometre spot; scan coils raster it across the specimen while detectors collect the secondary and backscattered electrons it knocks loose, building an image pixel by pixel. The whole column runs under high vacuum. 1,000 parts · 9 BOM lines
Slide Stainer Automated rotary-carousel stainer batching slides through reagent stations, drying, and coverslip application. 59 parts · 5 BOM lines
Spectrophotometer
Spectrophotometer Double-beam UV-Vis spectrophotometer: dual-lamp source, scanning monochromator, sample compartment and photodetector for measuring absorbance across 190-1100 nm. 124 parts · 12 BOM lines
Spectrum Analyzer
Spectrum Analyzer RF measurement instrument with heterodyne receiver, local oscillator synthesis, IF chain with digital signal processing, and logarithmic display for frequency domain analysis. 85 parts · 8 BOM lines
Superconductor Materials Lab A small laboratory for making bulk samples of candidate superconductors and testing them: powder preparation, furnaces, cryogenic resistance and susceptibility measurement, X-ray diffraction, safety equipment and stock, 115 items in seven groups. 1,846 parts · 7 BOM lines
Tabletop Electron Microscope
Tabletop Electron Microscope A compact scanning electron microscope with integrated vacuum and focusing optics, designed for benchtop deployment without dedicated vacuum infrastructure. 23 parts · 5 BOM lines
Temperature Transmitter A signal converter that accepts RTD or thermocouple input, conditions and linearizes it, and outputs a proportional 4–20 mA analog signal. 22 parts · 6 BOM lines
Tesla Coil Demonstrator
Tesla Coil Demonstrator Resonant transformer generating high-frequency high-voltage AC that produces plasma streamers from a topload capacitor, used for physics demonstrations and wireless power experiments. 27 parts · 7 BOM lines
Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA)
Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA) A thermogravimetric analyzer measures how a sample's mass changes as it is heated. A microgram-resolution balance hangs the sample inside a programmable furnace; as a controlled purge gas flows past, the instrument records mass against temperature, revealing decomposition, oxidation and moisture loss. An autosampler runs many specimens unattended. 661 parts · 8 BOM lines
Tissue Processor Automated histology specimen processor that cycles tissue through multiple reagent stations (fixative, dehydrants, clearing agents, paraffin baths) with vacuum/pressure and heated reagent tanks. 44 parts · 6 BOM lines
Torsion Testing Machine
Torsion Testing Machine Rotational loading apparatus that twists a shaft specimen between fixed and rotating chucks while measuring torque and rotation angle, determining shear stress-strain and torsional shear strength. 22 parts · 7 BOM lines
Total Station Integrated surveying instrument combining electronic distance measurement, angle encoders, and onboard computer for precise 3D coordinate capture. 86 parts · 8 BOM lines
Turbidity Analyzer
Turbidity Analyzer An on-line optical analyzer measuring suspended particle concentration by detecting light scattered or absorbed by particles in water. 33 parts · 6 BOM lines
Ultra-Low Temperature Freezer
Ultra-Low Temperature Freezer Ultra-low temperature (-80 °C) laboratory freezer using cascade refrigeration, insulated cabinet, and electronic temperature control for long-term sample preservation. 71 parts · 8 BOM lines
Ultracentrifuge
Ultracentrifuge A refrigerated ultracentrifuge spins a rotor to hundreds of thousands of g in an evacuated, armored chamber: a high-speed drive on a magnetic bearing turns the rotor, a vacuum system removes air drag, and refrigeration holds samples cold while sedimenting them by density. 445 parts · 10 BOM lines
Ultrasonic Flow Meter
Ultrasonic Flow Meter A non-invasive flow meter that measures flow velocity by detecting the time-of-flight or frequency shift of ultrasonic pulses traveling upstream and downstream. 31 parts · 5 BOM lines
Universal Testing Machine
Universal Testing Machine Servo-hydraulic or electromechanical frame applies tensile, compression, and flexural loads to specimens while measuring elongation and stress-strain curves. 34 parts · 7 BOM lines
UV Crosslinker Benchtop UV lamp array irradiating samples in sealed chamber to quantified DNA/protein crosslinking. 24 parts · 5 BOM lines
Vacuum Concentrator
Vacuum Concentrator Laboratory centrifuge-evaporator combining centrifugal force and vacuum heating for rapid solvent removal from biological and chemical samples. 51 parts · 8 BOM lines
Van de Graaff Generator
Van de Graaff Generator Electrostatic generator using a moving belt to transfer charge to an elevated conducting dome, producing high-voltage discharges for physics demonstrations. 32 parts · 7 BOM lines
Vector Network Analyzer
Vector Network Analyzer RF network analyzer measuring transmission and reflection of DUT via directional couplers, dual receivers, and coherent signal processing to yield S-parameters. 84 parts · 7 BOM lines
Vibratome A precision vibrating microtome that cuts thin serial sections from biological tissue samples for histological and neuroanatomical analysis. 26 parts · 6 BOM lines
Vortex Mixer
Vortex Mixer A benchtop laboratory mixer that spins an offset, counterweighted drive to whirl a spring-suspended cup head in a tight orbit, swirling liquid in a held tube into a vortex; runs touch-start or continuous with variable speed. 55 parts · 12 BOM lines
Wave Tank
Wave Tank Glass channel filled with water containing a motorized paddle wave generator and instrumented to measure wave height, speed, and beach absorption for coastal engineering study. 35 parts · 7 BOM lines
X-Ray Diffractometer
X-Ray Diffractometer An X-ray diffractometer: a sealed tube and high-voltage generator produce a monochromatic X-ray beam, a precision goniometer rotates the source and detector around the sample, and a strip detector records the diffraction pattern whose peak angles reveal the material's crystal structure. Interlocked shielding keeps the radiation enclosed. 705 parts · 10 BOM lines

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Components ranked by how many of the 122 recorded product BOMs reference the same page, directly or through a sub-assembly. A shared reference does not establish replacement-part compatibility.

  1. Fastener Set in 71 of 122 productsBolts, nuts, and washers.
  2. Microcontroller in 69 of 122 productsSingle-chip microcontroller combining a processor core, flash memory, RAM, and peripherals such as timers, ADCs, and serial ports to run the device's control firmware.
  3. Bare PCB in 67 of 122 productsUnpopulated printed circuit board: copper traces etched on an FR-4 glass-epoxy laminate that carry current between the components later soldered to it.
  4. SMD Passive (R/C/L) in 66 of 122 productsSurface-mount resistors, capacitors, and inductors, typically in 0402 to 1206 packages, that set voltages, filter noise, and time signals on a circuit board.
  5. Connector in 64 of 122 productsMating plug-and-socket pair that joins two lengths of wiring or a cable to a board so a circuit can be assembled, serviced, and separated without soldering.
  6. LCD Panel in 61 of 122 productsLiquid-crystal display module with backlight and driver electronics that shows the machine's readouts, menus, and status to the operator.
  7. Power Supply in 58 of 122 productsUnit that converts mains or battery input into the regulated DC voltages a machine's electronics and actuators need.
  8. Wire Bundle in 41 of 122 productsGroup of insulated conductors cut to length, terminated, and bound together to carry power and signals between the assemblies of a machine.
  9. Neodymium Magnet in 39 of 122 productsSintered neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnet, the strongest commercial magnet type, used for motor rotors, sensors, latches, and speakers.
  10. Ball Bearing in 36 of 122 productsDeep-groove radial ball bearing.
  11. Copper Winding in 34 of 122 productsInsulated copper conductor wound into coils that carry the phase current and create the magnetic field in a motor, generator, or transformer.
  12. Slot Insulation in 33 of 122 productsSlot liners and phase paper that electrically separate the copper windings from the stator core and from each other.