Scale Kitchen 5kg/1g

A Digital Kitchen Scale with a Stainless Steel Platform is an essential tool for baking accuracy, meal portion control, and parcel tracking. In a school science laboratory, a digital kitchen scale is frequently used as a budget-friendly, highly durable alternative to expensive precision lab balances. While it lacks the extreme microgram readability needed for advanced university research, its 1-gram or 0.1-gram incremental sensitivity is perfectly adequate for general education curricula (like introductory chemistry, physics, and biology).

Features:

• This is an ultra slim digital kitchen scale with sleek stainless steel weighing surface.
• High-precision sensor
• Weighing range of 5000g/1g
• Division value 1g
• LCD display with negative white digital
• Automatic zero point tracking
• Automatic turn-off
• Overload prompt
• Unit-conversion switch(g/ozt/1b/'oz)
• Easy to clean stainless steel weighing surface.

Specifications:

• Material: Stainless Steel
• Dimensions: 17.8 x 13.7 x 1.4cm
• Capacity: 11 LB / 5000g
• Readability: 1g / 0.05oz
• Display Modes: lb:oz, g, ozt
• Platform: 13.5 x 13.5cm/5.3 x 5.3 inch
• Color: Silver
• Power: 2 xAAA 

Package included:

• 1 x kitchen scale

Is the above scale a laboratory scale?

No, the digital kitchen scale described above is not a laboratory scale. It is a consumer-grade appliance designed specifically for domestic food preparation, culinary portion tracking, and basic residential or small-business postal weighing.

Level of Precision and Readability

• Kitchen Scale: Typically offers a readability increment of 1 gram (or 0.1 ounces). This margin of error is perfectly acceptable for baking ingredients, but far too broad for scientific experiments.
• Laboratory Scale (Precision/Analytical Balance): Usually measures to the nearest 0.1g, 0.01g, or even 0.0001g (0.1 milligrams). This granular accuracy is crucial when measuring highly reactive chemical reagents, pharmaceutical compounds, or micro-formulations.

In a school science laboratory, a digital kitchen scale is frequently used as a budget-friendly, highly durable alternative to expensive precision lab balances.

While it lacks the extreme microgram readability needed for advanced university research, its 1-gram or 0.1-gram incremental sensitivity is perfectly adequate for general education curricula (like introductory chemistry, physics, and biology).

1. General Chemistry & Reagent Preparation

• Massing Bulk Reactants: Students use it to weigh out non-hazardous bulk solid chemicals (like sodium chloride, baking soda, or copper sulfate) when making generic solutions.
• Utilizing the Tare Function: It teaches students the standard laboratory technique of "taring". They learn to place a plastic weigh boat or beaker on the scale, press the tare/zero button to erase its weight, and then measure only the substance added.

2. Physics & Earth Science Experiments

• Calculating Density: Students use the scale to find the mass (in grams) of irregular solid objects, such as rocks, mineral samples, or metal blocks. They then divide that mass by the object's water-displacement volume to calculate density (D = m/V).
• Conservation of Mass: Used to weigh closed experimental setups (like a sealed glow-stick or a vinegar-and-baking-soda balloon bottle) before and after a chemical reaction to prove that total mass remains unchanged.

3. Biology & Environmental Studies

• Biomass and Plant Growth: Students weigh soil portions, pots, or growing plant matter over several weeks to track water retention, evaporation rates, or biological growth metrics.
• Agar Preparation: Used to measure out bulk nutrient agar powder and distilled water when prepping Petri dishes for bacteria cultivation experiments.

4. Safety and Cost Efficiency

• Classroom Durability: Kitchen scales typically feature wipe-clean stainless steel surfaces and robust internal load cells. They can survive accidental drops, heavy loading, and chemical spills much better than delicate analytical balances.
• Scalability: Because they are relatively inexpensive, a school can afford to buy a scale for every individual student bench workstation rather than forcing the entire class to queue up for one central laboratory machine.