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A laboratory is a place where a person, oftentimes an expert of science, conducts scientific researches and experiment under controlled environments. In conduct of a research or experiment, a person gathers a specimen of each subject of interest that he can further manipulate through cooling using peltier coolers or heating using hot plates and observing the behavior of the specimen’s reaction to temperature change through a microscope.

It is important for any laboratory to have devices that will enable to control the environment, cooling and heating alike, so that people who conduct experiments can obtain quick and accurate results. In specimen cooling, peltier coolers are a kind of device that employs thermoelectric cooling under the concept to Peltier effect where a heat flux is created in both ends of two different materials by consuming electricity. An example of a laboratory experiment where peltier coolers are used is during the synthesis of DNA through a certain chain reaction that requires rapid cooling and heating.

A digital programmable hot plate is an advanced version of a basic hot plate that is used in laboratory research and experiment. From the name itself, a digital programmable hot plate can be used by inputting data to its program and setting the required parameters for the experiment. There are also versions of a digital programmable hot plate that a person can employ with the option to use it manually or using its built-in program.