Thread: What is the name of the stick used to stir solutions in biology and other science classes?

Now this is NOT the magentic stirring device that uses the pill like thing. No, this is a glass like rod that you use to manually dissolve a solution, like salt in water.

I was wondering if there was a correct term for this that I could use? Other then glass rod stirring thingy xD.

stirring rod

or Rod Sterling?


first one - I am a chemist

When I started learning chemistry in the 1950s we used a glass rod which had a 1cm long piece of red rubber tubing on the one end, This stopped the glass rod scratching the glass of the beaker. This rod had the glorious name of : "solution doctor". I do not think that modern laboratories use such high tech equipment any longer!!