Water Bath

A water bath is a piece of scientific equipment used to maintain a steady temperature for a prolonged time when incubating samples.

A water bath is preferred over an open flame when heating flammable substances. It is employed to enable some chemical reactions at high temperatures.

A big container filled with warm water makes up a hot water bath. It has different design combinations, sizes, and proportions. A laboratory water bath’s container capacity ranges from 12 to 32 liters for a standard model and 50 to 100 liters for a large water bath. Most water baths feature a digital or analog interface that users may use to set the desired temperature. In contrast, some water baths include a reader that uses a current to regulate the temperature. A shaker is another feature of the water bath that is useful for homogenizing the test solution.

Its mostly utilized in clinical and microbiology labs, university labs, environmental research, and even food technology for warming reagents, sample thawing, corrosion tests, and bacteriological investigations, among other applications. A water bath is a tool that needs additional supporting instruments to function. An incubator, a micropipette, a centrifuge, and a laboratory oven are typically used in tests involving a water bath.