laboratory

noun

1. A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
2. A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.

   “Again she read the passage that had riveted her attention; and, rising from her seat, carried the still open volume, and laid it on a slab by the furnace in the laboratory: it was a celebrated treatise on poisons, written in the fifteenth century.”

   “[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.”