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pipette

[pahy-pet, pi-] / paɪˈpɛt, pɪ- /


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The pipette she uses to remove the venom from the fangs is attached to a suction hose - crucial for collecting as much venom as possible, since each spider provides only small amounts.

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

Terrica Purvis squinted through goggles as her hands carefully guided a pipette full of indigo-tinted fluid into clear glass test tubes.

From Seattle Times Apr. 24, 2023

The camera was facing a petri dish where a gloved hand holding a pipette was adding something to the solution.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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

Technologists are nursing repetitive-use injuries, a result of hours of maneuvering tubes and pipettes, which take up and dispense liquids with the press of a plunger.

From New York Times Dec. 3, 2020

Behind the facade lies a vast floor with no halls and no doors—just a gigantic room, doctors and nurses behind white masks, test tubes and pipettes, incubators and gurneys.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

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

For decades, the fundamental labor unit of biological research has been the lowly grad student, who toils away pipetting liquids, taking measurements, looking through results and, if lucky, maybe running a few experiments a month.

From New York Times Nov. 24, 2021

The federal government and corporations such as LabCorp had failed to scale up COVID-19 testing, which often involved a tedious liquid transfer process called pipetting.

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

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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