Shakers
Laboratory shakers are used to agitate or mix liquids, suspensions, or samples in a controlled manner by providing continuous or intermittent motion. Shakers are essential for ensuring uniformity and promoting reactions or processes that require mixing, such as dissolving powders, creating emulsions, or maintaining cultures in suspension. They are commonly used in microbiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology labs for tasks like shaking bacterial cultures, dissolving reagents, or mixing liquids during chemical reactions. Incubated shakers combine shaking with temperature control, enabling researchers to grow cell cultures or perform biochemical reactions at specific temperatures. For specialized tasks, rocking shakers provide a gentle rocking motion ideal for mixing delicate samples, such as in immunoassays or DNA extraction. Depending on the application, shakers can be adjusted for speed, time, and amplitude, and may include features such as temperature control, timer settings, or programming capabilities for reproducible results. Lab shakers are widely used in research, diagnostics, and pharmaceutical applications that require reliable mixing.