Mortars and Pestles
Bel-Art™ SP Scienceware™ Microcentrifuge Tube Opener
For opening all sizes of tubes.
Bel-Art™ SP Scienceware™ Disposable Polypropylene Pestles
For re-suspending bacterial cells, precipitates of nucleic acids or proteins and pellets of other materials.
Bel-Art™ SP Scienceware™ Liquid Nitrogen-Cooled Mini Mortar
Freeze and process tiny tissue samples within a microcentrifuge tube
Thermo Scientific Chemicals Agate Mortar and Pestle
For preparing samples for the Quick Press
Thermo Scientific Chemicals Ball pestle; clear plexiglas; 1/8in. diameter
For use with Wig-L-Bug Mixing/Grinding Mill (AA44204KT and AA44604KT)
Cole-Parmer™ Essentials Agate Mortar and Pestle Set
The Cole-Parmer™ Essentials agate mortar and pestle set is ideal for laboratories that required contamination-free results.
Thermo Scientific Chemicals Wig-L-Bug™ Mixing/Grinding Mill Accessory, Ball Pestles, 9.52mm Dia.
For use with Wig-L-Bug Mixing/Grinding Mill (AA42627KT)
Thermo Scientific™ Wig-L-Bug™ Mixing/Grinding Mill Accessory, Stainless-Steel Vial
For use with Wig-L-Bug Mixing/Grinding Mill (AA42627KT)
Bel-Art™ SP Scienceware™ Liquid Nitrogen-Cooled Mortar
Useful for grinding frozen samples, this product includes a heavily insulated blue polyethylene housing that keeps liquid nitrogen cold longer.
KARTELL Potter Pestle
Potter Pestle should be used with borosilicate mortar for sample crushing.
Kartell™ Serrated Pestles
Disperse homogenate into a mortar more efficiently with a serrated pestle. Kartell™ Serrated Pestles are ideal for tough materials such as tumors and tissue.
Bochem™ Pestle
Bochem™ Pestle is a 140mm long, Stainless Steel pestle for use with a Stainless Steel mortar.
Bochem™ Stainless Steel Mortar
Bochem™ Stainless Steel Mortar for use with pestle.
Bochem™ Stainless Steel Mortar
The stainless steel mortar is for use with the 140 mm long Bochem™ Pestle (sold separately), for crushing or grinding ingredients or substances.
Giese™ Agate Mortar with Pestle
Grind up solid chemicals and crush solids into smaller pieces with this agate mortar and pestle. Giese™ Agate Mortar with Pestle features a smooth, dense, and hard surface.
Buerkle™ Burkle™ Melamine Melamine Mortar
Buerkle™ Melamine Mortar with particularly hard and abrasion resistant surface.
Mortars and pestles are implements for grinding or homogenising a wide range of materials to a paste, slurry or powder. The mortar is a steep-sided bowl which holds the material to be processed, and the pestle the blunt stick-shaped tool which pounds or grinds the material to the required consistency against the inside of the bowl.
Mortars and pestles have been used since ancient times, but they still find widespread use today in the laboratory for grinding biological or geological samples in readiness for further analysis, for grinding and mixing chemical compounds, in the kitchen for food preparation, and in pharmacies to produce ointments and other medicinal preparations.
Many mortars and pestles are worked by hand, but labour-saving motor-driven models are also available, which offer a more consistent grinding action, often with adjustable speed, pressure and timer controls.
What is the best material for a mortar and pestle?
Mortars and pestles can be made of porcelain, natural stone (granite, agate or marble), borosilicate glass, or other specialty materials such as hardened steel, tungsten carbide, melamine, or sintered aluminium oxide. Porcelain mortars and pestles are the most commonly used, and are usually glazed on the exterior and on the handle for easy cleaning, but have unglazed, rougher working surfaces to allow for exceptionally fine grinding. Borosilicate glass models are especially useful in the laboratory, as they offer the highest resistance to thermal shock and chemical corrosion. Agate and alumina versions offer minimal sample contamination.