Potometer

Model No. LA00174

·         Determination of transpiration in plant leaves is aim of laboratory Potometer. It has a graduated, narrow bore, horizontal glass measuring tube with a vessel for a plant shoot at one end along with a vertical limb and stopcock and a funnel fitted by a ground glass joint.

·         It is mounted on a wooden stand and is used for demonstration, of transpiration rates and rates of water absorption by a cut shoot under various external conditions.

·         A plant shoot is sealed into a stopper which fits the end tube, and the whole apparatus is filled with water, the open end of the capillary tube, which is graduated in millimetres, dipping into a beaker of water.