Mortars and Pestles
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.
Bel-Art™ SP Scienceware™ Liquid Nitrogen-Cooled Mini Mortar
Freeze and process tiny tissue samples within a microcentrifuge tube
Bel-Art™ SP Scienceware™ Disposable Polypropylene Pestles
For re-suspending bacterial cells, precipitates of nucleic acids or proteins and pellets of other materials.
CoorsTek™ Porcelain Mortars
With pour lip
Bel-Art™ SP Scienceware™ Microcentrifuge Tube Opener
For opening all sizes of tubes.
Thermo Scientific™ Agate Mortar and Pestle, 65mm OD
For preparing samples for the Quick Press
Buerkle™ Burkle™ Melamine Melamine Mortar
Buerkle™ Melamine Mortar with particularly hard and abrasion resistant surface.
Thermo Scientific™ Wig-L-Bug™ Mixing/Grinding Mill Accessory, Agate Vial
For use with Wig-L-Bug Mixing/Grinding Mill (AA44204KT and AA44604KT)
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.
Thermo Scientific™ Wig-L-Bug™ Mixing/Grinding Mill Accessory, Stainless-Steel Vial
For use with Wig-L-Bug Mixing/Grinding Mill (AA42627KT)
Thermo Scientific™ Wig-L-Bug™ Mixing/Grinding Mill Accessory, Ball Pestles, 9.52mm Dia.
For use with Wig-L-Bug Mixing/Grinding Mill (AA42627KT)
Thermo Scientific™ 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.
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.
Bochem™ Pestle
Bochem™ Pestle is a 140mm long, Stainless Steel pestle for use with a Stainless Steel mortar.
Mortar and pestle implements have been used since ancient times to crush and grind substances into pastes or powders. Mortars can be made of hard substances like wood, metal, and ceramic, or hard stone like granite or marble. Pestles are held in the hand, and usually have a tapered, club-like shape. A wet or dry substance is placed in the mortar, and the pestle is pressed and rotated against it until the material is pulverized.
What’s the best material for a mortar and pestle?
The implements must be made of materials that are hard enough to crush the substance without wearing away, and they cannot be brittle or break from the pressure of manipulation. The material should also be cohesive to reduce chipping and non-porous to avoid absorbing or trapping the substances. Some rough porcelain mortar and pestles can reduce substances to very fine powders, but are brittle and stain more easily. Porcelain mortars can be pre-conditioned by grinding sand that gives them a rougher surface. Glass mortars and pestles are stain resistant and suitable for liquids, but are fragile and do not grind as finely as ceramic sets. Metal mortars and pestles are popular for food preparation.
Ingredients can be ground into each other to dilute, mask negative qualities, or add volume to facilitate handling through a process called trituration. Drugs can be finely ground when not available in liquid form, and supplements processed to be added for parenteral nutrition. Mortars and pestles are also used as drug paraphernalia.