A description of laboratory tools could encompass and wide range of apparatuses'. Microscopes, scales, flasks, Bunsen burners, and thermometers are a few tools that are very common in experiments. Technically almost any equipment that is used in experiment can be considered a laboratory tool. Depending on the experiment one could probably define almost any object a laboratory tool. Here is
. a link to descriptions of some of the more common laboratory tools: http://hubpages.com/hub/Tools_of_the_Life_Scientists_