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beaker

[bee-ker] / ˈbi kər /
NOUN
cup
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Other students recorded the snake’s behavior while Hayes hooked, pinned, grabbed, and eventually extracted venom from the snake, by compelling it to bite a parafilm-covered beaker.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024

They showed that a mixture of molecules would form one of three structures depending on what concentrations of molecules were present in the beaker.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024

According to a now-archived blog post by the university, after an hour, "all that remained in the beaker was a pair of brown carnauba wax eyes floating in a purple Phenol soup."

From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2023

If you prefer fatty bacon, the beaker can accommodate that.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023

After pouring a little of each into a large glass beaker, he stirred the mixture thoroughly with a wooden spoon, watching intently as it smoked and steamed and boiled and bubbled.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

Its lab, with a row of bikes parked inside the front door, hums quietly with workers in protective gear moving between beakers, kilns and mineral samples being tested for durability and composition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

Early on, the videos fall into the realm of hobbyist experiments: He exploded a small hydrogen balloon; he concocted glass beakers of acids.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

They also delivered more than two times the venom by weight into the beakers, even though they were on average about 21% smaller than the mainland snakes.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024

The expertise of the Noël group is in flow chemistry, a novel way of performing chemistry where a system of small, flexible tubes replaces beakers, flasks and other traditional chemistry tools.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2024

Upstairs, there was a science laboratory fully equipped with glass beakers, test tubes, and a variety of scales, batteries, and chemicals.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple


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