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pipette

[pahy-pet, pi-] / paɪˈpɛt, pɪ- /


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It is exactly what she's trying to achieve - that way she can suck the venom from its fangs using a small pipette.

From BBC ● May 16, 2025

Holding a pipette carefully in one hand, Laxamana talked through the radio to troubleshoot the problem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2024

"When people collect the mucus from the animal, they'll pipette it off or scrape it off," said author Margaret Braunreuther.

From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024

Whenever he saw standing water Gomes grabbed a hand pipette out of his bag and looked for larvae, which he collected in a white plastic container.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

Headmarveller MacDonald pulled the cork from the bottle, inserted a pipette, and drew out a bit of the liquid.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Tiny glass pipettes were used to fill the champagne bottles - but the bubbles had to be removed to make this possible.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024

The fragmented and siloed world of laboratory science became the crux of the crisis; the fate of millions rested upon hand pipettes and fax machines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

When squeezed in front of the eye, lemon peel produced tears on demand, which were collected in glass pipettes and placed into tubes for study.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2021

The spike in demand has overwhelmed labs, leading to shortages of key supplies such as chemicals, pipettes, and tubes to measure and dispense those chemicals, as well as delays in results.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2020

Dozens of people in crisp white lab coats with a silver MT logo were working at stations with microscopes, remotely manipulating machines inside glass cubes, using pipettes, typing into computers...all of them busy and focused.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Samples of a solution are pipetted into the wells of a gel.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

After the bottles rolled for three days, he pipetted out the snow and analyzed the number of microplastics in each flake.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2022

The researchers took nematodes from diseased trees, pipetted them onto the buds of young, healthy trees in a greenhouse, then waited for symptoms to appear and reisolated the nematode from the affected leaves.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 14, 2019

Thomas pipetted a few drops of each compound into Petri dishes filled with bacteria that had been genetically engineered to manufacture the human enzyme suppressed by lithium — and eventually got a hit.

From Nature ● Jun. 13, 2016

Next he pipetted it into a centrifuge tube and centrifuged it at high speed, some sixteen thousand revolutions, until the serum was perfectly clear, with no trace of a reddish tint, nor even cloudy.

From The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

She said she worked for hours, painstakingly pipetting drops of the samples into tiny glass wells as part of the testing process, which extracts genetic material in order to detect the presence of the virus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2024

He wanted to extract and read DNA from his inside cheek, but his unsteady hand kept bungling the pipetting process at Genspace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

To keep the process going, Kenny would drive to his darkened laboratory at odd hours of the night, carefully pipetting samples onto sequencing chips while the world around him slept.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2020

The scientists also built a robotic system to analyze the samples quickly; the old way, pipetting by hand, required several days to analyze only a fraction as many samples.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2017

Mary didn’t realize until months later that he’d been studying her hands, checking their dexterity and strength to see how they’d stand up to hours of delicate cutting, scraping, tweezing, and pipetting.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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