An evaporating dish is a piece of laboratory glassware used for the evaporation of solutions and supernatant liquids, and sometimes to their melting point.

What is meant by evaporating dish?

: a shallow usually lipped vessel often of porcelain used especially for concentrating solutions on a small scale by evaporation of the solvent.

What is an evaporating dish made from?

This object is an evaporating dish made from Pyrex glass. An evaporating dish is a round, low dish with a spout used for evaporation in chemistry. Often they are made from porcelain but they can also be made from glass.