Erlenmeyer flask
Noun
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Noun
Erlenmeyer flask (plural Erlenmeyer flasks)
- (chemistry) A glass laboratory flask of a conical profile with a narrow tubular neck and a flat bottom, used to manipulate solutions or carry out titrations.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 265:
- An assistant arrived with a wheeled cart bearing coffee in an Erlenmeyer flask, cups, and a plate of strange muffins.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 265:
- French: erlenmeyer
- German: Erlenmeyerkolben
- Italian: beuta, matraccio di Erlenmeyer
- Russian: ко́лба Э́рленме́йера
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