Shaker (laboratory)

A shaker or a shaker is a laboratory device for uniformly mixing of liquid samples or reagents.

Shaker in the laboratory are available in various designs. For overhead - shaker sealed round-bottom flask clamped firmly and slowly rotated about a horizontal axis through the head, so that the contents of the flask are mixed steadily with plugs. With flatbed shaker Erlenmeyer flasks or beakers are kept constantly by shaking and / or circular movements of the horizontal circulation in motion and thus mixed the liquid contents.