AP 300 cc Graduated Cylinder (11 fl. oz.)

today we're going to talk about how to read a graduated cylinder a greeting a graduated cylinder is actually really easy to do if you remember just a few rules but before we get started take a second and look very closely at the water inside of the graduated cylinder in the picture what do you notice about the water if you look closely you would see that the water is curved and it dips down there's a special name for this the name of the curved surface of the liquid that's in a tube is called the meniscus now when you're reading a graduated cylinder it's important to always read the graduated cylinder from the bottom of the meniscus when you're reading a graduated cylinder as you can see in the picture it is very very important to always read it at eye level this makes sure that you are reading the numbers straight across not from the top where you might get a lower reading or from the