Utility clamp - wikipedia Utility clamp Utility clamp 2 - prong utility clamp attached with ring stand Uses Hold rounded laboratory glassware Material Stainless steel Components 2 - prong adjust, metal rod, and clamp down A Utility clamp is a laboratory apparatus resembling a pair of scissors. The screw in the middle works as the wide adjustment of 2 - prong. It composes of 3 parts : 2 - prong adjust, metal rod, and clamp down ( attach the clamp to the ring stand for adjust the height ). This apparatus is connected to ring stand or retort stand. It is used to hold rounded laboratory glassware, for example, a beaker, flask, etc. This clamp is made from stainless steel. top view of 2 - prong utility clamp side view of 2 - prong utility clamp References Jump up ^ `` MR. Eisley. July 7, 2004 ''. Jump up ^ `` Lab Equipment List '' ( PDF ). Jump up ^ Cole - Parmer. `` CLAMPS & Support '' ( PDF ). Laboratory equipment General Heaters Dryers Alcohol burner Bunsen burner Desiccator Heating mantle Hot plate Lab oven Kiln Meker - Fisher burner Striker Teclu burner Water bath Vacuum dry box Mixers Shakers Chemostat Homogenizer Liquid whistle Magnetic stirrer Mortar and pestle Shaker Sonicator Static mixer Stirring rod Vortex mixer Wash bottle Stands Clamps Holders Beaker clamp Clamp holder Tripod Burette clamp Extension clamp Flask clamp Funnel support Iron ring Pinch clamp Retort stand Screw clamp Test tube holder Test tube rack Wire gauze Lab drying rack Containers Storage Agar plate Cryogenic storage dewar Incubator Laminar flow cabinet Microtiter plate Petri dish Picotiter plate Refrigerator Weighing boat Weighing dish Other items Aspirator Autoclave Balance brush Cork borer Crucible Filter paper File Forceps Centrifuge Microscope Pipeclay triangle Spectrophotometer Splint Stopper Scoopula Spatula Test tube brush Wire brush Inoculation needle Inoculation loop Glassware Apparatus Dean - Stark Soxhlet extractor Kipp 's Bottles Boston round Pycnometer Condensers Cold finger Liebig Dishes Evaporating Petri Watch glass Flasks Büchner Vacuum ( Dewar ) Erlenmeyer Fernbach Fleaker Florence Retort Round - bottom Schlenk Volumetric Funnels Büchner Hirsch Dropping Separatory Measuring devices Burette Conical measure Cuvette Eudiometer Graduated cylinder Ostwald viscometer Pipette Pipette ( dropper ) Tubes Boiling Cragie Ignition Nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) Test Thiele Thistle Other items Beaker Gas syringe Vial Analytical chemistry Compositional AutoAnalyzer CHN analyzer Colorimeter Inductively coupled plasma ( ICP ) device Gas chromatograph ( GC ) Liquid Chromatograph ( LC ) Mass spectrometer ( MS ) pH indicator pH meter Microscopy Scanning electron microscope ( SEM ) Transmission electron microscope ( TEM ) Thermochemistry Calorimeter differential scanning Melting point apparatus Thermometer Thermogravimetric analyzer ( TGA ) Other items Analytical balance Colony counter Spiral plater Nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) instrument Plate reader Electronics Ammeter Current source Function generator Galvanostat Multimeter Network analyzer Oscilloscope Pulse generator Potentiostat Spectrum analyzer Time - domain reflectometer Voltage source Voltmeter Safety Personal protective equipment ( PPE ) Lab coat Face shield Respirator Rubber apron Safety shower Eye and hand Acid - resistant gloves Eyewash station Glove box Medical gloves Nitrile gloves Safety glasses Safety goggles Other items Acid ( solvent ) cabinet Biosafety cabinet Fire blanket Fire extinguisher Fume hood Instruments used in medical laboratories Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Utility_clamp&oldid=747959315 '' Categories : Laboratory equipment Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 5 November 2016, at 13 : 14. About Wikipedia

Question: what is the function of a utility clamp
Answer: to hold rounded laboratory glassware